OpenBoard cannot be opened with MIUI

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OpenBoard cannot be opened with MIUI

opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

If MIUI users disable this option in the App: Show app icon

There is no way to get back to the OpenBoard settings. When user try to press the comma key for a long time to reach OpenBoard settings this way. It doesn't work.

The cause. It only appears in MIUI and probably other Android systems that do something similar.

Here's the link.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56295901/miui-permission-denied-activity-keyguardlocked

There are no direct instructions if MIUI users want to return to the Openboard settings using the method (press comma key). But then wonder why nothing happens.

On MIUI 11 (Android 9) this has to be activated to solve this.

Settings -> Apps -> Manage apps -> OpenBoard -> Other permissions -> enable: Display pop-up windows while running in background

Licaon_Kter · Answer 1 · Sun Feb 09 2020 10:09:01 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Can't repro on MIUI11 Android 10 here, also you can always setup in Settings/System/Language...

Alan Sánchez Pineda · Answer 2 · Sun Feb 09 2020 13:19:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have this issue too on MIUI 11 (Android 9) and had already mentioned it on #22 , but I never got the change to take stack traces so didnt say anything after they closed the issue. Glad to see you found a workaround.

Daniele Laudani · Answer 3 · Wed Sep 09 2020 23:58:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the workaround! I linked it in the README.

Sebastian Wiesendahl · Answer 4 · Fri Feb 11 2022 05:15:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This workaround works also for MIUI 12.5.7 on a POCO F3.

Go to settings -> manage keyboards to finally activate the OpenBoard keyboard.