Iphone companion issues

App Inventor for iOS
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Im having some issues with the iphone app inventor companion:

  • when i click on a textbox to type the different components on my screen overlap each other and kind of smush together.
  • the textbox hints dont appear and they are not shaded in (on default setting) like they are when texting on other devices
2

Changed your topic from #bugs to #appinventor-ios

3

Can you tell the model of your phone and iOS version you are using. Maybe you can post an aia that shows the behavior you are describing.

4

i have an iphone 8 and im on ios 14.4

today the textbox hints are appearing but the outline still isnt there, and the screen still smushes together. I'll attach a screenshot

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5

Hmm. Yes that is certainly an issue. What is the status of the Scrollable property on the screen and are you using multiple nested VerticalArrangements?

6

The screen is set to scrollable. and the layout for those buttons is:
a table arrangement with 4 rows and 2 columns, and each counter(minus button, textbox, plus button) is in a horizontal in the table arrangement

i probably made that more confusing than necessary

7

That's alright that it's complicated. We obviously want to be able to handle these more sophisticated cases. I assume you've tested it on Android and that it worked okay there?

8

yes i had none of these types of issues when using the chrome book companion.

Except for some reason when i tested the same app with no changes to my code on the chrome book i got an error, but it runs fine on my phone besides from these bugs... (i havent tested this in a few days, ill check this issue again later )

9

Ok. If you wouldn't mind sharing the app with us, please send the AIA file to me as a private message and we will add it to our testing rotation.

10

i just sent it, i think i did it right.