(I'm afraid hg annotate doesn't tell me the history of android-project.) Your information is definitely what I've wanted! TYPE_NUMBER_VARIATION_PASSWORD is 0x00000010 TYPE_NUMBER_VARIATION_NORMAL is 0x00000000 I hear it affects the Galaxy Tab A 8.0', Galaxy S6, Asus ZenPhone 2, maybe

'textediting' events, but for now, this should be a fast fix. perhaps there's some other way (onKeyPreIme?) to do but telling the OS to use a 'visible password' keyboard helps deal with Mode that does not dispatch a traditional onKey events, which is troublesome 'We found an issue where certain Android keyboards (like the S6 with Please use TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_NORMAL or something friendly to Japanese instead.

This problem breaks Kivy TextInput widgets. InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD doesn't allow GBoard (and probably any other keyboards) to input Japanese (or any languages except English). Reported for operating system, platform: Android (All), ARM Comments on the original bug report: These attachments are available in the static archive: This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

Japanese keyboard predictive text