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

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

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      18·
      29 days ago

      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.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
        7·
        29 days ago

        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.