Material-components-android: [MaterialDatePicker] Manual Date input does not work on Samsung devices

[pwillmann]

Description:
When clicking the "edit" button next to "Selected Date" on the picker to manually input a date with the edit text it is not possible to enter a valid date with the Samsung stock keyboard since the number keyboard that is opened does not allow to enter "/" or ".".

Expected behavior: It should be possible to enter a valid date with the keyboard, either by automatically inserting the special characters to complete the date or by using keyboard variant that supports these needed characters.

Android API version: 27 / Android 9.0

Material Library version: 1.1.0-beta01

Device: Samsung Galaxy S8+ (SM-G955F)

[mcastagnolo]

Also having this issue. Hope it's going to get picked up.

[ldjcmu]

We'll definitely look into this one. We're setting the inputType to "date", but unfortunately that's not good enough for Samsung. Will see what we can do and thanks for the device specific report.

[ldjcmu]

Edit: This comment is outdated, please see below.

So Samsung has changed their date keyboard between versions 8.0 and versions 9.0 to not include slashes for their inputType="date"; it is simply the numbers keyboard. (I could not find a single inputType that had numbers + slashes or other appropriate separator characters, but if you know of an inputType that works please let me know.) We don't want to change the keyboard input type to all text as that's a much worse user experience; we do however, want to look into auto-adding separator characters in an i18n friendly way.

Because of this, we're going to block this bug on #695 and try to more thoroughly revamp the text input.

I'll finally add that we're ok with the workaround of using the calendar input mode or using speech input (as speech input of slashes does work) for the time being, but do recognize that it is not ideal.

[ldjcmu]

We decided that auto-adding separator characters in an i18n/l10n friendly way is too error prone, so we're going to special case the keyboard on Samsung devices. We'd like to only do so on versions where the date input keyboard doesn't include the separator characters.

Has anyone seen this issue on a Samsung device between APIs 4.2 (14, Jellybean) and 9.0 (28, Pie)? Right now we're going to do it for all Samsung devices, but we intend to reduce that once we can confirm other API levels. We're also looking into ways to test across all these devices, but that isn't as easy as I'd hoped.

[ldjcmu]

As a bonus, it looks like Samsung pushed an update to phones very recently that adds the slash to their date keyboard today.

[leticiarossi]

Fixed in https://github.com/material-components/material-components-android/commit/d6b2da8b50bf322ff58cd0eb4a72eb20ebe64bd1

[abalta]

@leticiarossi It's still continues in Galaxy S8 - SMG950F. I use 1.2.0-alpha06 version.

[victorbrndls]

@leticiarossi I've tested it on

• Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime (Android 8.0)
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (Android 7.1)
• Samsung Galaxy S20+ (Android 10)
  and it's showing the wrong keyboard.
  

I'm using com.google.android.material:material:1.2.1