How to disable native keyboard from showing up on Android and iOS?

[DoubleDBE]

In my application, I created my own simple keyboard in XAML.

When a TextBox gets focused, naturally the native keyboard is shown.

But this is not the desired behavior for my use case.

Is there a way I can disable this on a global scale?

I already tried adding android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" to the android manifest, but it doesn't work.

I'm using the latest version of Avalonia (11.0.7).

Some insights would be greatly appreciated!

[thevortexcloud]

This might help you?

#13363

Not sure though.

[DoubleDBE]

Well, if i'd only knew what to look for...

Would be cool if they added TextInputOptions.ContentType="Disabled" or something.

[thevortexcloud]

I would suggest putting a feature request. There is a lot of work happening in this area already from what I have seen.

[kekekeks]

For now you can handle TextInputMethodClientRequestedEventArgs on the view level (Bubble stage, handledEventsToo: true) and reset whatever input client that was set by the textbox. That will make our input system to think that the focused control doesn't have text input capabilities.

[workgroupengineering]

control.RemoveHandler(InputElement.TextInputMethodClientRequested, ...)

[beemobile4net]

I am facing the same problem on Android. I followed the advice.
This part works - it properly registers an event handler (txtMain is in my case reference to Avalonia TextBox):

txtMain.AddHandler(InputElement.TextInputMethodClientRequestedEvent, this.TextMain_InputMethodClientRequested, RoutingStrategies.Bubble, true);

However, I'm struggling how to implement the TextMain_InputMethodClientRequested method:

private void TextMain_InputMethodClientRequested(object? sender, TextInputMethodClientRequestedEventArgs e)
{
    TextInputMethodClient? timc = e.Client; // TextInputMethodClient object successfully retrieved
    // how to hide the the client now? There is no such method on TextInputMethodClient
}

I do not know, how to hide the soft input method by using a reference to TextInputMethodClient. I do not see any method, nor property, that I could use. I'm on Avalonia 11.1.0-rc1.

Thank you.

[DoubleDBE]

You should set e.Client to null, works for me;

e.Client = null;

@kekekeks is this still applicable, doing it like this?

[beemobile4net]

@DoubleDBE - thank you for a fast response. I will try it out once I get to the office again. I will definitely write a comment about my findings.

[beemobile4net]

The reason why I did not report on my findings was, that the advice did not work for me. Then I had to switch to a different project. But the issue continues to be unresolved for me.