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Google keyboard not appearing automatically
Have a bit of an emergency where after the latest Gboard update, when users tap an input field, instead of Gboard just showing up as normal, a menu bubble is appearing instead where they have to tap it and select the "show on screen keyboard" option. I haven't been able to locate Google's release notes for Gboard to see if there was something that changed. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Lizzie, we're good at this point. We were able to find the app config setting to just force the on-screen keyboard to always show. I did see that a new Gboard version came out early last week, but we haven't had a chance yet to see if the issue was also resolved in Gboard itself. Does Google publish release notes for apps like Gboard?
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hi cat_herder ,
I think i'm having the same issue, but not on a device but inside the Android studio device simulator. It starting doing this around the weekend. It might indeed have something to do with the update, but it should not be doing that. Especially not in a simulator in my opinion.
Just to be sure, you mean this bubble right?
Here a video of how it appears: https://youtube.com/shorts/2UABHJpmexYYes, that looks to be the exact same problem.
I think the menu bubble is what appears if you are using a physical keyboard (not 100% positive on this as I've never used a physical KB w/ Android), but we don't use those whatsoever.
