Seems like newTextField on Android does not show suggestions/autocorrect when typing. I tested other apps and it works, so I don’t think its my system. Also a user reported this problem to me.
I’m using build 2511. I tested the “standard” example here as well: http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/native/newTextField.html
Hi @jonjonsson,
Auto-correct is currently disabled on Android. It works on iOS, but we’ve had some requests to allow a method to disable it there (and thus there would need to be a method to both enable and disable it on Android). I’ll mention this to the engineers and gauge the possibility of this being added.
Brent
Thanks Brent,
My app has chat and chat without auto-correct is understandably causing some negative reactions for users that come to expect that.
Auto-correct is very useful to have for lots of purposes, even in-app search. So let me add my vote to <jonjonsson>'s.
+1 for being able to enable/disable auto-correction
Hi all,
Has this feature request been added to and voted for in the Feedback system? In fairness to others who are requesting features, we can’t prioritize this over other requests which have been logged in the system. I hope you understand our reasoning for this.
Thanks,
Brent
FYI, for those following this:
https://developer.coronalabs.com/corona-daily-builds/summary
More specifically, we’ve completed these feedback requests:
http://feedback.coronalabs.com/forums/188732-corona-sdk-feature-requests-feedback/status/872842
Since these are in the daily builds and not the public build yet, here are the docs for them:
http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/type/TextField/autocorrectionType.html
http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/type/TextField/spellCheckingType.html
http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/type/TextField/inputType.html
Rob
Great! but we need these features in the native.newTextBox too.
Engineering has asked that we start another feature request for this… Please go to and create a request specifically identifying textBoxes, not textFields.
Thanks
Rob
Hi @jonjonsson,
Auto-correct is currently disabled on Android. It works on iOS, but we’ve had some requests to allow a method to disable it there (and thus there would need to be a method to both enable and disable it on Android). I’ll mention this to the engineers and gauge the possibility of this being added.
Brent
Thanks Brent,
My app has chat and chat without auto-correct is understandably causing some negative reactions for users that come to expect that.
Auto-correct is very useful to have for lots of purposes, even in-app search. So let me add my vote to <jonjonsson>'s.
+1 for being able to enable/disable auto-correction
Hi all,
Has this feature request been added to and voted for in the Feedback system? In fairness to others who are requesting features, we can’t prioritize this over other requests which have been logged in the system. I hope you understand our reasoning for this.
Thanks,
Brent
FYI, for those following this:
https://developer.coronalabs.com/corona-daily-builds/summary
More specifically, we’ve completed these feedback requests:
http://feedback.coronalabs.com/forums/188732-corona-sdk-feature-requests-feedback/status/872842
Since these are in the daily builds and not the public build yet, here are the docs for them:
http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/type/TextField/autocorrectionType.html
http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/type/TextField/spellCheckingType.html
http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/type/TextField/inputType.html
Rob
Great! but we need these features in the native.newTextBox too.
Engineering has asked that we start another feature request for this… Please go to and create a request specifically identifying textBoxes, not textFields.
Thanks
Rob
Just to let you know.
I submitted a piece of code to the code exchange that allows native.newTextBox to turn off auto correction.
https://code.coronalabs.com/code/turn-auto-correction-nativenewtextbox