- cross-posted to:
- android@lemdro.id
- cross-posted to:
- android@lemdro.id
Android has had an autofill feature for password managers for years now, but it’s broken and needs to be fixed.
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Imagine it gets fixed but only in Google Autofill and not Android auto fill
That’s one thing I do like about iOS, there’s a secrets manager API and you can use their default keychain, or a 3rd party app like bitwarden and they all interface the same.
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.
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.
Never had that happen actually
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.
Which app do you use? In my case it’s KeePass2Android (for Webdav/Nextcloud support)
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.
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.
As it should be. But for some inane reason it works differently for other apps.
I mean in their defense, apps really ought to have “normal” log-in screens. Providers working around that feels like a bandaid instead of a fix.
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.
That’s because Bitwarden used various methods to enable auto-fill in places where the native auto-fill capability of Android doesn’t work. See https://bitwarden.com/help/auto-fill-android/ for an explanation.
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.
Bitwarden works well in every app and browser I’ve tried.
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.
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.
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
I have the password manager set to show as a drop-down below the password blank itself rather than in a bar above the keyboard and it seems to work pretty well
I’d like to try that. How do you get to that settings?
After checking it seems to be within the password manager I use, 1password’s settings, but I think? Bitwarden has a similar setting
