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

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[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 42 points 1 month ago

I dunno, I use Bitwarden and Firefox on Android so pretty none mainstream and don't have any of the issues this clown does. Seems like a click bait article for the sake of it.

[-] evo@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago

Bitwarden works well in every app and browser I've tried.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month 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.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

That banking apps are annoying isnt news :p

[-] oktoberpaard@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago

That’s because Bitwarden used various methods to enable auto-fill in places where the native auto-fill capability of Android doesn’t work. See https://bitwarden.com/help/auto-fill-android/ for an explanation.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

Same setup, and its largely fine, but about 5-10% of the time bitwarden/keyboard will fail to show the password auto complete buttons, and I'll have to copy paste manually, or restart Firefox. Really annoying, albeit rare.

[-] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Agreed... depending on Google to implement or fix very specific features is just shouting into the void. Use a trusted 3rd party app like Bitwarden, as you mentioned

[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

+1 from me as well. I almost never have issues with Bitwarden. And when I do its usually in apps that don't allow autofill in a normalish way. So I'm not sure thays really Google's or Bitwarden's fault, but the app developers...

[-] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I had this sort of experience back with LastPass, but Bitwarden works beautifully for me.

There's a potentially valid criticism if that occurs because iOS's mechanism is robust to poorly implemented password managers and Android's isn't, but that's also not the criticism being provided here.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Mixed experiences beyond firefox with bitwarden. But they are usually minuscule.

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