Add TextField in compose-material about horologist HOT 3 CLOSED

It's by design, you should launch out to get input

See https://github.com/android/wear-os-samples/blob/main/ComposeAdvanced/app/src/main/java/com/example/android/wearable/composeadvanced/presentation/ui/userinput/UserInputComponentsScreen.kt

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I know that text input should be launched by a button, RemoteInput APIs are limited. I can't decide input type (an example is putting password or putting a phone number) it displays always keyboard with characters. I know that exists an Intent action ("com.google.android.wearable.action.LAUNCH_KEYBOARD) but it has same issues of RemoteInput. I tried to implement a basicTextField and it has some little bugs but I can choose input type. So by design is not possible to add a wear TextField or a custom implementation of its APIs to allow launching IME with a button?

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It won't get fixed here in Horologist - suggest you comment on https://buganizer.corp.google.com/issues/213546115

I guess what we could do, it create a non editable BasicTextField, that when clicked calls out to GBoard so API wise its similar to BasicTextField. I don't think it helps you with input type, but it's not our remit to build out platform components like text fields.

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