Android has had an autofill feature for password managers for years now, but it's broken and needs to be fixed.

Android has had an autofill feature for password managers for years now, but it’s broken and needs to be fixed.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I dunno, I use Bitwarden and Firefox on Android so pretty none mainstream and don’t have any of the issues this clown does. Seems like a click bait article for the sake of it.

    • ashaman2007@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Agreed… depending on Google to implement or fix very specific features is just shouting into the void. Use a trusted 3rd party app like Bitwarden, as you mentioned

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        3 months ago

        My banking apps lock screens consistently aren’t recognized by Bitwarden Android.

        Some websites/apps only show the email field at first, then add the password field afterwards. This also sometimes makes it not being detected as a login form.

        Sometimes a password field is detected only on the first filling in (which is annoying when choosing the wrong entry).

        On desktop it’s great, but I really don’t know why some apps have to do custom login screens.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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          3 months ago

          If apps don’t do anything weird, this stuff should work automatically. Most of my issues with password managers stem from apps that decide to throw all standard components and APIs away and redesign the concept of “text input” from the ground up.

          I believe banks do this intentionally so malware can’t automatically enter input without additional effort. The same bullshit sometimes also messes with browser password managers, like not accepting the autofill or treating the input field as empty unless you typed something into it.

    • lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I had this sort of experience back with LastPass, but Bitwarden works beautifully for me.

      There’s a potentially valid criticism if that occurs because iOS’s mechanism is robust to poorly implemented password managers and Android’s isn’t, but that’s also not the criticism being provided here.

    • Southern Wolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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      3 months ago

      +1 from me as well. I almost never have issues with Bitwarden. And when I do its usually in apps that don’t allow autofill in a normalish way. So I’m not sure thays really Google’s or Bitwarden’s fault, but the app developers…

    • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Same setup, and its largely fine, but about 5-10% of the time bitwarden/keyboard will fail to show the password auto complete buttons, and I’ll have to copy paste manually, or restart Firefox. Really annoying, albeit rare.