MAUI Text Entry on Complete not Working - Possible Work around? - event-handling

Question

I'm trying to use text entry on maui to fire an event when completed. I have set the "Completed" event to a handler and it works correctly on windows. But on Android I have no joy, the event just isn't firing.
I realise there is a bug in Maui which is preventing this. But it looks like the problem was discovered in August? It's a fairly basic thing, well at least it appears to be on the face of things.
What is the best work around for this? The only thing I can think is by using the textchanged event instead of completed. This works correctly, but then i have to bodge it by doing this sort of thing:
if (entry1.Text.EndsWith("#"))
{
//Then string is complete, so need to fire correct event
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Complete String Detected");
}
This works and I can use it since I'm awaiting for input from a barcode scanner, so I can set the last terminating character to whatever I want. In this case I set it to a #. I can't figure out a way to detect the return key being pressed.
Thanks
Andrew

Answer 1

There is a similar issue on the github about the Entry.Completed and Entry.ReturnCommand not executed.
This comment shows the cause and the workaround about this problem.
detect the return key being pressed
In addition, I can't understand the problem. I have created a sample to test. The Entry.Completed event will call when I pressed the enter key. I don't kown the return key you mentioned is what. But you can use the IOnKeyListener for the android to detect any key being pressed.
Create a Listener class in the /Platform/Android:
public class MyKeyListener : Java.Lang.Object, IOnKeyListener
{
public bool OnKey(global::Android.Views.View v, [GeneratedEnum] Keycode keyCode, KeyEvent e)
{
var edittext = v as AppCompatEditText;
if (keyCode == Keycode.Enter && e.Action == KeyEventActions.Down )
//I used the Entry key as the example, you can use any other key you want to replace it.
{
edittext.ClearFocus();
edittext.SetBackgroundColor(Color.GreenYellow);
return true;
}
return false;
}
And in the page.xml:
<Entry Completed="Entry_Completed" x:Name="entry"/>
Set the listener to the entry by overriding the OnHandlerChanged() in the page.cs:
protected override void OnHandlerChanged()
      {
            base.OnHandlerChanged();
#if ANDROID
(entry.Handler.PlatformView as AndroidX.AppCompat.Widget.AppCompatEditText).SetOnKeyListener(new MauiAppTest.Platforms.Android.MyKeyListener());
#endif
}
You can also set the listener with the handler. Finally, you can try both the method above and the workaround in the issue on the github.