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D-Pad navigation doesn't work in any of the projects #63

Closed shshekhar93 closed 5 years ago

shshekhar93 commented 5 years ago

The keyboard navigation with D-Pad for all these projects seems to be broken in Silk as well as Firefox.

After the page is loaded (from my local server), the cursor hangs around and the d-pad controls the cursor rather than passing the key events to the page.

russellbeattie-amazon commented 5 years ago

Both Silk and Firefox seem to be capturing the remote's button presses for the virtual cursor. This is how they were designed - I did a quick look through Firefox's open source project (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-tv) and there wasn't any obvious way to disable it. I would suggest submitting an issue with them, as it's outside the scope of this project.

Meanwhile, if you want to test your web app on Fire TV, please use the Amazon Web App Tester - it provides a relatively raw WebView wrapper (the same WebView that Firefox uses) and does not intercept key presses. You can find that here: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Digital-Services-Inc-Tester/dp/B00DZ3I1W8

Thanks!