Very low accuracy with Dotterel on Android

[MarkoSchuetz]

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Current Behavior

I use MonkeyType in two scenarios:

• on laptop with steno keyboard through Plover
• on tablet with steno keyboard through Dotterel.
  With Plover the keyboard uses Gemini PR and with Dotterel it uses NKRO.
  Using the tablet I see much lower accuracy reported than when using the laptop: on the laptop MonkeyType reports about 90% and doing the same test on the tablet it will report below 30%.

Expected Behavior

I would expect about the same accuracy on both.

Steps To Reproduce

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Environment

• OS: Android on tablet, Linux on laptop
• Browser: Brave on tablet, Firefox on laptop
• Browser Version: Brave 1.14.114, Firefox 105.0.3

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[Miodec]

I dont have an android device so im honestly stuck here.

I do know that android does some super funky stuff with keyboard events, and adding a steno-like keyboard on top probably doesn't help things here.

[nimble0]

The problem seems to be because Dotterel outputs blocks of text, a bit like pasting text, instead of generating key press events (like Plover).

Specifically, it causes an issue when a word is prefixed by a space. Manually writing the spaces gives 100% accuracy:

"say"
" "
"high"
" "
"between"
" "
"few"

But this gives a low accuracy:

"say"
" high"
" between"
" few"

[Miodec]

Actually, this happens with swipe typing as well (on iOS atleast). Spacing in between swipes gives 100% accuracy, but letting the swipe prefix the space gives low accuracy.

Is it the same on Android with a swipe keyboard?

[nimble0]

I don't see this issue with swiping in Gboard.

[Miodec]

Hey, i fixed the accuracy calculation for swipe typing. Could you check if Dotterel is fixed?

[nimble0]

Looks completely fixed with Dotterel.

[Miodec]

Nice. Let me know if you run into any other issues