TextInput limited to 1 character when Swype with word suggestion turned on

[axelbrink]

With Swype with word suggestion turned on on my Android 2.3 phone, I can only enter a single character in a TextInput. If I try to enter more text, the character is always replaced by the last typed character.
The problem vanishes when turning word suggestion off, or by selecting Samsung's keyboard instead of Swype.
It would be great if this could be solved. (I'm using Kivy 1.9.)

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[QuantumDamage]

I also can observe this bug, my setup:
Android 4.1.2
Kivy Launcher 1.8.0.0
SwiftKey Keyboard 5.2.2.124

[rfrancis]

Likewise with Android 5.0.2 and otherwise the same as the previous commenter.

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[allhavebrainimplantsandmore]

Is this bug not critical? In a nutshell, user input in textinput widgets is limited to text entry one character at a time - and swype-like gesture input as whole words is not working at all.
Can the devs state here at least where to look for the source of this 8 year old issue in Kivy code (found another bug submitted from 2012) so people can volunteer to analyze this "NEEDS-ANALYSIS" open report and look for a fix for this fundamental broken functionality in Kivy?

[matham]

Given that no one replied, it's probably because no one knows where exactly the issue is. But I expect it's somewhere in the sdl2 input events.

[Alspb]

Just tо summarize, if I understand correctly the situation is as follows:

1. The swipe typing doesn't work on Kivy 2.0.0.
2. Keyboard text suggestions also doesn't work (suggestions bar is hidden) even if keyboard_suggestions=True.
3. The question is also asked on stackoverflow
4. The bug is in SDL2 and is discussed on bugzilla.
   Unfortunately I haven't found any issue directly describing the problem. Maybe it's reasonable to create one?

[matham]

Before a issue can be opened in the SDL repo, we should have a clear understanding of why it currently doesn't work as it may not be an SDL2 issue, but a kivy issue.

So we'd need to understand how it's supposed to work in SDL2 and whether kivy is missing some interface. For reference, you can see related issues about selecting the keyboard type: #7130, #7231.