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

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    16 hours ago

    Yeah, it’s really a mystery to me how this can be so inconsistent across providers. With one app I have to click a separate button/dropdown-thingy and another fills the username and password in directly.

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      15 hours ago

      And on top of that Google’s own password manager which I had deactivated managed to weasel itself into the foreground on my kid’s phone. It was a pain to deactivate it again.

      • Lucy :3
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        15 hours ago

        Never had that happen actually

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          15 hours ago

          No idea how it happened. I think when my wife created an account for something on there it asked to save it. And since then it intercepted every password request.

          • Lucy :3
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            15 hours ago

            Which app do you use? In my case it’s KeePass2Android (for Webdav/Nextcloud support)

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              14 hours ago

              Nextcloud Passwords. It works more or less like yours. Just one of the other Nextcloud Password apps didn’t. Only after I switched did I realise that it could be different.

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      15 hours ago

      For me I just have to click on the entry, if the KeePass DB is unlocked. Otherwise I click on the “KeePass2Android” entry, it opens the app, I unlock it and it either autofills or I just then finally click the entry.