Android Oct 11, 2026
3 min read
Flutter: the Android keyboard won’t open on a field with an iOS-only TextInputAction
A TextField with TextInputAction.join works on iOS. In a debug build on Android, tapping it gives the field focus and nothing else: no keyboard, no cursor, and nothing in logcat. The release build of the same code is fine. It looks like a broken emulator keyboard and it is one line of Dart.