9 Replies Latest reply: Nov 13, 2013 2:55 AM by be.dicorp.jgi RSS

    'Swype' is ruining my app and reputation.

    FLAdude Community Member

      Some time ago, someone complained to me that my app was going berserk when he tried to edit text. It would just keep duplicating text each time he tried to type, making it completely maddening and unusable. I told him I had not encounterd that and the only thing I could think of that could cause that is a shoddy input method or maybe malware or a rooting gone bad. He said his phone wasn't rooted and insisted it was my app and flamed me in the ratings

       

      So recently I got a new Android device and I went to test my app. The thing he had described was now happening to me. I then realized that the standard keyboard was not up, but this "swype" thing had been running by default and ruining my app. When I switched it to a plain input method, the text editing was fine. Apparently swype goes berserk on AIR-based apps. Quite frustrating that all the blame and rage is being directed at my app when it is this bogus, poorly designed input method messing things up. Input methods should work without interfering with or messing up functionality of apps, this is just common sense and common courtesy ediquite. It is infuriating that such things are actually pre-installed on some devices.

       

      Apparently this guy must have had swype (or another poorly designed input method) pre-installed and pre-selected on his device and would not listen about input methods.

       

      How do I disable non-standard input methods from running in my app or work around this scourge?