Add "Keyboard.None"

[DoctorKrolic]

Description

Currently I can only choose what type of keyboard I want for a specific Entry, but in order to fully disable the keyboard I have to do some weird workarounds with #ifs and custom renderers involved: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73199602/need-a-way-to-hide-soft-keyboard-in-mauis-editor-entry-fields (the first link in google search for me). I think such capability should be implemented on platform layer and be available to all MAUI users without that much effort to use it.

The end result of this proposal should look like this (taken from the article about how to implement such feature in Xamarin, which also didn't have a build-in solution for it):

Public API Changes

In https://github.com/dotnet/maui/blob/main/src/Core/src/Primitives/Keyboard.cs:

public class Keyboard
{
    ...
+    public static Keybord None
+    {
+        ...
+    }
}

https://github.com/dotnet/maui/blob/main/src/Core/src/Converters/KeyboardTypeConverter.cs should also be modified.

Intended Use-Case

Well, see almost any calculator app for reference. It provides an input field but doesn't trigger the system keyboard when tapped/clicked. In general the feature would be very useful when the app needs a specific control over what user is typing. Such apps usually have their own keyboard or a limited set of buttons for data input

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[Redth]

@PureWeen how does this fit into the focus/keyboard story?

[PureWeen]

@DoctorKrolic @ChaplinMarchais

Is there a way to implement this that's natural on the platform? The SO post that you linked to is a bit random with what everyone on that thread is talking about.

The implementation here
https://theconfuzedsourcecode.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/a-keyboard-disabled-entry-control-in-xamarin-forms/

Is very unnatural to the platform.

My hope is to get some Keyboard Manager APIs built into the community toolkit and built into .NET8
CommunityToolkit/Maui#969

I think that will handle your scenario here so that you can add behavior to hide the keyboard yourself.

[DoctorKrolic]

Is there a way to implement this that's natural on the platform? The SO post that you linked to is a bit random with what everyone on that thread is talking about.

I honestly have no idea. This was the feature I needed and it seems many other people need as well. So I created an issue for it. I am not familiar with platform-specific stuff unfortunately

[samhouts]

I believe you can now achieve this with CommunityToolkit/Maui#1064.

[pictos]

@PureWeen can you confirm it?