Android webView dispatchKeyEvent doesnt work on Kitkat

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I am dispatching the user entered input into an Android web-view using the below approach:

            webView.dispatchKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(System.currentTimeMillis(),
                String.valueOf(c), InputDevice.SOURCE_TOUCHSCREEN,
                KeyEvent.ACTION_MULTIPLE));

This works fine on all Android devices with OS version upto 4.3 but doesn't work on 4.4 (Kitkat).

Has anything changed in OS version 4.4?

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1 Answers

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It looks like this is a known issue:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=66715

Unfortunately, this issue is 9 months old and hasn't been touched... /rolleyes /facepalm