BACKENDS: Android - Native keyboard leads to bad input for some games

[antoniou79]

Tested with ScummVM android app (amd64-v8a) 2.2.1pre and 2.3git:

Occurs on:

• EoB (Eye of the Beholder), on the character screen creation, when trying to name a character. If you bring up the keyboard (which is not brought up automatically), and then type a name, the game understands wrong characters (or a repeated character). Eg. I tried to name my character "Meep" and got "PP"

• Beneath a Steel Sky, when trying to name a save game from the game's native menu, rather than ScummVM's own in-game menu. Again, wrong characters (or sometimes no characters) appear.

This is probably an issue for other games too, but I haven't tested with more.

Maybe a workaround would be to support ScummVM's virtual keyboard (which is not currently supported on Android 2.1+)

Android Device: Xperia Z5 Compact. Android OS 7.1.1

[antoniou79]

I should note that the keyboard that the SDL port used (what is the vkeybd?) works ok with the Beneath the Steel Sky native save menu (ScummVM port version 2.0.0). I have not tested with EoB yet but I expect it will be fine as well with it.

[antoniou79]

After looking a bit into it, it seems that the keyboard that the SDL port used is not the same as ScummVM's virtual keyboard option.

[antoniou79]

Should be fixed by
​https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/303d4681f0271e0c68649db4006a7fbbb44ff17a
​https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/bf54ea041b650e463db9f16234be5497a1f69990