Android BUG? SetText() is not the same as setting .text

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The following seems to apply to Android (specifically Oculus Quest) builds and Unity 2019.3.0f5 with TextMesh Pro 2.0.1

When attempting to set the text of a TextMeshProUGUI component using the SetText() method, visually it looks OK but the value read at some later stage still contains the original value.

Setting .text works as expected.

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SetText() goes through a different path and only updates / keeps in sync the .text property in the Editor. This is to avoid allocations.

SetText() should only be used with short strings and to combine / format the text with variables.

I also modified the behavior of plain SetText() in 2.1.0-preview.3. By plain SetText() I mean the variant when only using a string. This would should sync at runtime.

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Thanks; perhaps some clarification in the documentation could save some future time… not that I saw any reference in here to that method.

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