[Feature]: Android: send message with a hardware keyboard (Enter or Ctrl+Enter) #21685

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1. juliusmarminge commented on Oct 19, 2026

   

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   Thanks for the report. The mobile app already has a Return key "Send" setting, but on Android it currently does nothing for hardware keyboards. Open PR #15030 makes the Android composer honor that setting, so a hardware Return sends the same way it does on iPad (with Ctrl in place of Command) while the on-screen keyboard still inserts newlines. That change has not been tested on a real Android tablet yet.
2. shivamhwp commented on Oct 25, 2026

   

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   Julius took over #15030, which covers this, so I've stopped work on #21687. Here's what our device testing found, in case it helps #15030's physical-keyboard QA:

   • Composing guard. fix(mobile): restore lost iOS race fixes and Android keyboard parity #15030 skips Return when getComposingSpanStart(text) >= 0. On a POCO F4 (Android 14) with a hardware keyboard, the on-screen keyboard keeps a composing region over the last word even while you type on the hardware keyboard. With that guard in place, Ctrl+Return did nothing. fix(mobile): Android sends with Return on a hardware keyboard #21687 dropped the guard (5ae895c); after that, Return and Ctrl+Return sent as expected.
   • IME Return without the soft-keyboard flag. Some IMEs send Return with device ID 0 and no FLAG_SOFT_KEYBOARD. Device ID 0 maps to the built-in keyboard, which on these phones is the fingerprint sensor. fix(mobile): Android sends with Return on a hardware keyboard #21687 sends only when the event's device is non-virtual and KEYBOARD_TYPE_ALPHABETIC. fix(mobile): restore lost iOS race fixes and Android keyboard parity #15030's sendKeyEvent wrapper handles the same case from the IME side.
   • Device evidence (POCO F4 and POCO M3 Pro, before and after recordings) is in the fix(mobile): Android sends with Return on a hardware keyboard #21687 body.
   • Unverified: Return with a CJK IME on a hardware keyboard.
3. orlando-ts commented on Nov 4, 2026

   

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   Tested #21687 (head deb79c3) as a local release build on a OnePlus Pad 3 (OPD2415, OxygenOS 16 / Android 16, 16.0.10.600), Return key setting "Send message":

   • OnePlus Pad 3 keyboard: Return sends, Shift+Return inserts a new line.
   • Samers foldable Bluetooth keyboard with trackpad: Return sends, Shift+Return inserts a new line, Ctrl+Return sends.
   • On-screen keyboard: Return still inserts a new line.

   No double sends. The keyboard app's floating toolbar stays up while typing on the hardware keyboard, and it didn't interfere.
4. juliusmarminge

   added 2 commits that reference this issue on Nov 9, 2026

   fix(mobile): Android sends with Return on a hardware keyboard

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   This issue will close once commit 74091cf is merged into the 'main' branch.

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   fix(mobile): Android sends with Return on a hardware keyboard

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   This issue will close once commit 80da69e is merged into the 'main' branch.

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5. juliusmarminge commented on Nov 9, 2026

   

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   Thanks for the report! #21687 adds Android hardware-keyboard Return and Ctrl+Return sending, merged as c73b38b.
6. juliusmarminge

   closed this as completedon Nov 9, 2026