Barkuti
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2 years ago Yes, this is a problem. I am also a user of Telegram FOSS and Hacker's Keyboard, and noticed this bug since version 8.7.4: cursor keys straight cause a change of context out of the input field. I was hoping for it to be a momentary bug, and so I just downgraded to v8.6.2 a little over two months ago to keep using my cursor keys properly. In Telegram FOSS 8.7.4 and 8.8.5 the up cursor starts selecting chat balloons instead of moving the cursor just before the first word or character in the input field in the first place, and the other keys straight jump to other application fields; it's like if the cursor keys had some strange modifier key stuck enabled. However, when modifier keys are used along the cursor keys they work correctly: I can hold Shift and select text, or hold Ctrl and jump between words. This is more than proof that this is a bug, and was not intended to happen. Of course this must be fixed as soon as possible, so please fix it. The only workaround for now is to keep using good 'ol v8.6.2. Downgrading for now.
I've used Hacker's Keyboard specifically to allow for ease of use and accessibility as a disabled person for this task in many dozens of other apps over the past 8 years, since I first started using Android. Telegram-FOSS is the first app I have encountered that does not handle arrow key codes properly. Instead of the expected, intuitive, normative, and sane action of very simply moving the cursor left, right, up, or down when inputting text, the cursor just leaves the text editing box entirely, though the virtual keyboard remains open, yet no further text can be entered until the touch screen is used to return the focus to the text area input field. I do not know where the focus goes, if it was intentionally designed to do this and if so, what mistaken rationality is used to justify an incorrect, user-unfriendly, unexpected action.