Hiding the last password character in WebView

[Peter Conn]

Hello,

I work on the Android WebView team. As I understand it, when a user enters a password (into a password input field in Chrome on Android or WebView) on their phone, the last character is displayed briefly before turning into a *. We're considering turning this behaviour off in certain situations so that all that appears on the screen is *.

For example, at the moment if I type "password" you'll see "*******d" briefly, but we'd like to change it so that you just see "********".

I assume that this is something that can be changed (as it's the behaviour on desktop), but I don't know what it is I'm looking for - there's probably some name for this feature that I just don't know.

Could anyone give me any pointers for this, and ideally tell me whether it's an easy thing to do, or a hard thing to do?

Thanks,

Peter C