#hide keyboard

A Keyboard disabled Entry control in Xamarin Forms?

A Xamarin Forms Entry Control without a keyboard? So when the user clicks on the Entry, the keyboard wouldn’t pop up? Yep, that’s what I’m talking about yo!

Oh sweet! So that I could use my custom keyboard or key buttons to enter values into it without the keyboard popping over and covering up the view? Oh yeah! that’s awesome! 😀

So it all began..

There was this one time where I was asked to…

Forcefully dismissing Keyboard in Xamarin Forms…

Wait… what? You want to forcefully dismiss your keyboard? A-B-SOL-U-T-E-L-Y!

Thanks to my experience in  working with high-expectation- seniors at my company, who demands me to push the limits of the Xamarin FormsFramework (frankly I love it, although it is kind of exhausting at times), I keep on sharing cool stuff which is quite out of the norm. And heyyy buckle up, since this is one of those…

Android – How to hide keyboard when search button of the keyboard is pressed?

How to hide keyboard when search button of the keyboard is pressed?

When the user finishes inputing in edittext and press ‘search button’ fo the keyboard, the keyboard should be hidden..

Answer

Set imeOptions to “actionSearch” in your xlm for edit text

Initialize listeners for your EditText

searchEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() { @Override public…

There is direct API support to hide and show the InputPane. You don’t need to try to fake out the system. The Windows.UI.ViewManagement.InputPane.GetForCurrentView().TryHide(); and Windows.UI.ViewManagement.InputPane.GetForCurrentView().TryView(); methods are available on Windows Phone 8.1. Here’s the required code.

If you are working on a Windows Phone 8/Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight application…