Can You Minimize the Soft Keyboard on Android From Text Completed Event - maui

Question

I've seen various answers to this question for older versions but not sure how to translate to MAUI. The question being, is there a way that you can minimize the soft keyboard on a device from the Text Completed event of an Entry control?

Answer 1

I finally figured out how to do this. This solution is for Android only right now. It doesn't use a custom handler since I could not get the window token from PlatformView. Instead the code looks like this:
#if ANDROID
var imm = (Android.Views.InputMethods.InputMethodManager)MauiApplication.Current.GetSystemService(Android.Content.Context.InputMethodService);
if (imm != null)
{
//this stuff came from here: https://www.syncfusion.com/kb/12559/how-to-hide-the-keyboard-when-scrolling-in-xamarin-forms-listview-sflistview
var activity = Microsoft.Maui.ApplicationModel.Platform.CurrentActivity;
Android.OS.IBinder wToken = activity.CurrentFocus?.WindowToken;
imm.HideSoftInputFromWindow(wToken, 0);
}
#endif
So credit to the syncfusion folks that published their version, and this code above is modified from that to work in MAUI.

Answer 2

The code belongs in a custom handler. Based on Customize a control with a mapper.
In that Maui handler, handler.PlatformView is the Android control. Xamarin.Android properties/methods would be on that.
Something like:
using Microsoft.Maui.Platform;
namespace CustomizeHandlersDemo;
public partial class CustomizeEntryPage : ContentPage
{
public CustomizeEntryPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
ModifyEntry();
}
void ModifyEntry()
{
Microsoft.Maui.Handlers.EntryHandler.Mapper.AppendToMapping(
"MyCustomization", (handler, view) =>
{
#if ANDROID
handler.PlatformView....
#elif IOS
#elif WINDOWS
#endif
});
}
}
NOTE: That example modifies ALL Entries.
If you want to modify only SOME Entries, you instead define a subclass (e.g. public class MyEntry : Entry {}), and do this:
Microsoft.Maui.Handlers.EntryHandler.Mapper.AppendToMapping(
"MyEntryCustomizationOrWhatever", (handler, view) =>
{
if (view is MyEntry)
{
#if ANDROID
handler.PlatformView....
#elif IOS
#elif WINDOWS
#endif
}
});
For your specific situation, the line you were having trouble adapting to Maui contains btnSignIn.WindowToken.
Replace that with handler.PlatformView.WindowToken.