[ashb155]

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Description

This pull request resolves an issue where the Android OS spellchecker was drawing red wavy underlines under placeholder and prompt texts (such as en -> es: Ingrese una palabra or foreign language words) in the keyboard's command bar.

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Related issue

• Closes Remove mispelled word red lines from command bar placeholder texts #748

[andrewtavis]

@ashb155: In testing this I'm getting a really weird view for the keyboard where its height is maxed out. This is sadly also on main, which really confuses me as the only PRs that we've brought in, #755 and #756, were for the app menu.

See image below:

The keyboard glitches when you first open it, and then when it does open it has a height of the screen and the keyboard itself is cut off. Testing this on Pixel 9 and API 36 in an emulator.

Would you be able to take a look?

CC @prince-0408 as well. I'm wondering what might be up that this is now happening 🤔

[prince-0408]

@ashb155: In testing this I'm getting a really weird view for the keyboard where its height is maxed out. This is sadly also on main, which really confuses me as the only PRs that we've brought in, #755 and #756, were for the app menu.

See image below:

The keyboard glitches when you first open it, and then when it does open it has a height of the screen and the keyboard itself is cut off. Testing this on Pixel 9 and API 36 in an emulator.

Would you be able to take a look?

CC @prince-0408 as well. I'm wondering what might be up that this is now happening 🤔

Hey @andrewtavis! Neither #755, #756, nor #758 touched keyboard layout code.

It is working completely fine on my device/emulator as well:

This confirms the issue is triggered specifically on API 36 (Android 16) due to system-enforced edge-to-edge window handling:

1. In KeyboardThemeManager.kt, targetWindow.decorView.setBackgroundColor(color) paints the entire edge-to-edge window decor grey instead of keeping it transparent.
2. The bottom row gets clipped behind the navigation/gesture bar because navigation insets aren't padded to the keyboard container under edge-to-edge.

I can open a quick PR to fix the IME decorView transparency and insets on API 35/36 if you'd like!

[ashb155]

@ashb155: In testing this I'm getting a really weird view for the keyboard where its height is maxed out. This is sadly also on main, which really confuses me as the only PRs that we've brought in, #755 and #756, were for the app menu.

See image below:

The keyboard glitches when you first open it, and then when it does open it has a height of the screen and the keyboard itself is cut off. Testing this on Pixel 9 and API 36 in an emulator.

Would you be able to take a look?

CC @prince-0408 as well. I'm wondering what might be up that this is now happening 🤔

could you try restarting the emulator once? It runs fine on my emulator
Medium phobe API 36

[andrewtavis]

praise: Thank you @ashb155 for the contribution and you both for the discussion here! I updated to the latest Android Studio Rabbit 2, and the issue's now been resolved. Great to not have these red lines anymore!