bug(android): Cannot use Control, / Alt hotkey when editing / typing text

[noxsanc]

Describe the bug

With physical keyboard connected to Android device, all hotkeys (like Control C, Control V, Control Z, Alt Enter) cannot be used when tying or editing text.

Reproduce the bug

1. Connect physical keyboard to Android device.
2. Tap or navigate to a text field to type something
3. Select text and press "Control + C", or press "Control + A" to select all, or press "Alt Enter" to insert line-break in Google Sheet cell text.
4. No copy, no paste, cannot select all text, and no line break in created

Expected behavior

4. Selected text is copied, pasted; whole section is selected, line break is register.

Related issues

No response

Keyman apps

• Keyman for Android
• Keyman for iPhone and iPad
• Keyman for Linux
• Keyman for macOS
• Keyman for Windows
• Keyman Developer
• KeymanWeb
• Other - give details at bottom of form

Keyman version

16.0

Operating system

HyperOS 3

Device

Redmi Pad 2 Pro

Target application

Browser, Google Doc, Google Sheet

Browser

Brave

Keyboard name

EuroLatin (SIL), Vietnamese VNI

Keyboard version

Latest

Language name

English, Vietnamese

Additional context

No response

[darcywong00]

Also posted on the community site forum
https://community.software.sil.org/t/text-hotkey-with-physical-keyboard-does-not-work-android/11272

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When using Keyman for Android with an external physical keyboard, the only hotkey we support is Ctrl+Tab for switching keyboard.

See https://help.keyman.com/products/android/current-version/basic/switching-between-keyboards under "Hotkey"

We do have a feature request to allow "copy to clipboard" on the suggestion banner (#3313), but there's quite a few technical issues to resolve before we can get there. It's not ideal, but here's some workarounds you can use in the meantime.

Keyman for Android Workarounds

Copy selected text to clipboard (in separate app)

• longpress your selected text and use the Android prompts to copy/paste text.

Copy selected text in Keyman to clipboard (in Keyman app)

• (Some versions of Android): you can use the "Share" feature and copy to clipboard

Newline in Android Excel

• After you start typing in the Excel cell with a Keyman keyboard, you can touch the text field above the keyboard
• alt+enter will insert a newline