Make Autofill on Android work for Username/Email field
Currently in my Pixel 6 Pro (Android 13) in Brave Browser using Google Keyboard: Whenever I want to Login to a Website, the Autofill Option from Proton Pass does not show up on the Username/Email field, only on the Password field. So then I Autofill the Password and still have to type the Username/Email... Very inconvenient.
Daniel Fischer
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James Flynn
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Yes, some apps seem to have spotty support for the built-in Autofill service.
I think too that this can happen in various "flavors" where either:
1) Neither field is recognized, so one must launch Proton Pass manually to copy/paste from
2) The username/email field does not prompt autofill, but using autofill from the password field will fill in both spaces
3) The username/email field is not recognized at all (for filling or launching autofill)
- one must fill in the username/email via copy/paste, but need an open instance of Proton Pass to switch to/from, or must fill in by hand.
4) Some applications will simply fail to autofill from the autofill service after selecting login, but the autofill service dismisses because the field is supposedly "filled" (seems more android dependent, as this is more prevalent in recent versions, e.g. 13+, and not just for Proton Pass).For the last two cases, I think that keeping Proton Pass in memory/"recent apps" would allow the user to work around this by switching back to the instance to fall back to copy/paste.
For the 2nd/3rd cases (and somewhat the first), other password managers make use of Accessibility services to create additional prompts if a built-in screen reader sees username/email/password fields. This can make up for poor implementations of the autofill service in applications.