Any chance to have a keybardless Entry field?

[dinobu]

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Description

It would be useful if you want to enter in a focused entry using your custom buttons. Or if you want to scan barcode into entry using HID scanner (2nd keyboard) without having to pop up keyboard on each scan

Steps to Reproduce

Expected Behavior

To have some kind of input view such as Entry that allows receiveing programatic Focus call without popping up soft keyboard in Xamarin.Forms Android, iOS, and UWP

Actual Behavior

Basic Information

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Reproduction Link

[Happypig375]

Anything related to UI should be in Xamarin.Forms.

[jamesmontemagno]

As @Happypig375 mentioned head over to http://github.com/xamarin/xamarin.forms to post.

[dinobu]

As @Happypig375 mentioned head over to http://github.com/xamarin/xamarin.forms to post.

Thanks, already done so ... there have been request for that functionality since 2016 btw but I created couple of my own