maui: Soft Keyboard does not Pop Up when Entry View's Focus is set to True Programmatically

to this day it still doesn’t work

Surprised to see ! It isn’t working till today.

I added a mapper here that you can copy to add this behavior for android.

One thing to note is that if your intention is to open the keyboard you should use KeyboardManager.ShowKeyboard not Focus

Using Focus to influence the Keyboard has always felt like a hack to me in general.

Quick Solution : Make Entry , Editor or Any thirdparty controls IsEnabled = false then Entry.UnFocus() to hide the key board and Again don’t forget to make IsEnabled property to true as soon as the task is completed. 😃

This definitely needs a fix

Here’s some code you can use to interact with the keyboard for the time being

https://github.com/PureWeen/ShanedlerSamples/tree/main/ShanedlerSamples/Keyboard

If you call “ShowKeyboard” there’s no need to call “Focus” when using this code.

Still not working in GA. Is there a method, to show/hide the ENTRY keyboard manually?

I’ve encountered a different problem. Keyboard is not hiding when unfocus entry. I made a wordaround in handler:

protected override void ConnectHandler(AppCompatEditText platformView)
{
	base.ConnectHandler(platformView);

	if (VirtualView is Entry entryControl)
		entryControl.ObserveUnfocused().Subscribe(UnfocusedSubscription);
}

private void UnfocusedSubscription(FocusEventArgs args)
{
	if (!args.IsFocused)
	{
		InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)global::Android.App.Application.Context.GetSystemService(global::Android.Content.Context.InputMethodService);
		inputMethodManager.HideSoftInputFromWindow(PlatformView.WindowToken, HideSoftInputFlags.None);
	}
}

I use own observable method, but you can use events.

I’ve encountered the same problem. But when I use “Entry” inside Grid instead of StackLayout, it works just fine. Entry and StackLayout don’t get along yet.