JQuery / JQueryUI / Autocomplete not working on Android 4.2.2

and thanks for trying to help me (again) ...

Please take a look at this simple autocomplete example. The code comes almost directly from the official docs.

        var availableTags = [
      "ActionScript",
      "AppleScript",
      "Asp",
      "BASIC",
      "C",
      "C++",
      "Clojure",
      "COBOL",
      "ColdFusion",
      "Erlang",
      "Fortran",
      "Groovy",
      "Haskell",
      "Java",
      "JavaScript",
      "Lisp",
      "Perl",
      "PHP",
      "Python",
      "Ruby",
      "Scala",
      "Scheme"];

  $("#tags").autocomplete({
      source: availableTags,
      minLength: 0,
  })
  .focus(function() {
      $(this).autocomplete( "search", $(this).val());
  });

      

        
        
        
      

    

HTML is even simpler:

<label for="tags">Tags:</label>
<input id="tags">

      

        
        
        
      

    

Here is the complete JSFiddle:

Link to JSFiddle

The code works well on PC (Firefox and IE tested), but not at all on Android (Samsung Galaxy Tab, Android 4.2.2). When I focus the input, an autocomplete list appears, I can select a value, but the value is never passed to the input.

I tried several combinations of JSQuery and JSQueryUI, they all behave the same. Any hints what I can do to get autocomplete working on my tablet?

thank

Aline.