Hide and show keyboard android Xamarin

hideAndShowKeyboard.cs

/**
 * Hides the soft keyboard
 */
		public void hideSoftKeyboard ()
		{
			var currentFocus = Activity.CurrentFocus;
			if (currentFocus != null) {
				InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)Activity.GetSystemService (Context.InputMethodService);
				inputMethodManager.HideSoftInputFromWindow (currentFocus.WindowToken, HideSoftInputFlags.None);
			}
		}

		/**
 * Shows the soft keyboard
 */
		public void showSoftKeyboard (View view)
		{
			InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)Activity.GetSystemService (Context.InputMethodService);
			view.RequestFocus ();
			inputMethodManager.ShowSoftInput (view, 0);
		}

Very Useful!!!

I made a little change for use in my different activities:

The class hideAndShowKeyboard.cs:

`
using Android.Content;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Views.InputMethods;

namespace APP.Resources.Utils
{
class HideAndShowKeyboard
{

    /**
     * Shows the soft keyboard
     */
    public void showSoftKeyboard(Android.App.Activity activity, View view)
    {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)activity.GetSystemService(Context.InputMethodService);
        view.RequestFocus();
        inputMethodManager.ShowSoftInput(view, 0);
        inputMethodManager.ToggleSoftInput(ShowFlags.Forced, HideSoftInputFlags.ImplicitOnly);//personal line added
    }

    /**
     * Hides the soft keyboard
     */
    public void hideSoftKeyboard(Android.App.Activity activity)
    {
        var currentFocus = activity.CurrentFocus;
        if (currentFocus != null)
        {
            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)activity.GetSystemService(Context.InputMethodService);
            inputMethodManager.HideSoftInputFromWindow(currentFocus.WindowToken, HideSoftInputFlags.None);
        }
    }
}

}`

And use it in my activity:

`private letras_Fragment mLetras_Fragment;

protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
...
hideAndShowKeyboard = new HideAndShowKeyboard();
hideAndShowKeyboard.showSoftKeyboard(this, MyEditText);
}
`

Hi, fliipin eck it worked!!! :)

I'm new to Xamarin so had a lot of issues getting the keyboard to disappear, but your example I was able to use and hack.

One thing is that in VS 2022 I have had to use an [obsolete] directive on the showSoftKeyboard method. I think it was to do with the ToggleSoftInput method. Don't suppose you have any ideas on how to update that? But anyway thanks for posting this solution :)