Ren'Py How do I avoid character name input completely breaking RenPy Android ports?

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comebillybilly

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Nov 1, 2017
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A major chunk of RenPy Android ports I have installed have this issue where the user has no apparent way to confirm text input, no skip option is available,hitting Enter does not do anything, and to make things more annoying, the keyboard keeps getting pulled up since the user cannot escape out of the text box. It took me a good few tries to take a get a good shot.

Is there any way to fix this on the user side? It might be one of the most annoying bugs I have ever seen and makes me wonder how it is so common

I use a Galaxy Tab A running on Android 10 and have two games I have seen impacted below:

https://f95zone.to/threads/lab-rats-vren.1394/
https://f95zone.to/threads/corrupting-the-intern-v0-19-lambdadude.678/
 
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Odlanier

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Jun 23, 2020
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Just use the floating mode of the onscreen keyboard. Popular onscreen keyboards such as Gboard, SwiftKey keyboard has this option available
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Just a screenshot with the floating mode of Gboard. The size and position of the floating mode can also be adjusted.
Another solution is to connect a wired or bluetooth external keyboard.
Its also not a bug. Simply the Dev's are too lazy to change the position of textbox to be visible and not hidden behind the keyboard when porting to Android. Popular porters like the66 and DarkAssassin use some kind of RenPy SDK mod which enables the textbox to appear above the keyboard during in game typing.
 
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