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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-80358

Please provide pre-built Virtual Keyboard libraries for Android

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      [See also QTBUG-80357, which is somewhat related to this suggestion.]

      There appears to be an assumption that no Virtual Keyboard support is required for Android. The Qt install for Android does not include pre-built libraries and other supporting files for the Virtual Keyboard, such as are provided for Windows; and the Android platform plugin library is not set up to load the Virtual Keyboard (see QTBUG-80357 for more on that issue). I can kind of understand why this assumption might be made, since Android has its own built-in OS soft keyboard (and other 3rd party keyboards are available). However, in our app, we have quite specific and specialized keyboard needs that the Android OS keyboard does not satisfy. We also want our users to see exactly the same soft keyboard in our Windows Tablet and Android apps. The Qt Virtual Keyboard is the ideal solution for this, so we really need to be able to use it on Android. And I doubt that we are the only Qt customers who would want the ability to use the Qt Virtual Keyboard on Android.

      The lack of pre-built Virtual Keyboard libraries for Android is annoying, as we have to build those ourselves from source code whenever we move to a new release of Qt. We would really appreciate it if the Qt Virtual Keyboard libraries and supporting files could be pre-built with Android Qt releases, just as they are for Windows.

      Thanks!

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              mitch_curtis Mitch Curtis
              roballan Rob Allan
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