My child composable has

Modifier.focusRequester(x)

and

requestFocus()

is called when its rendered (in a

LaunchedEffect

). As expected.. it gets the focus. Now my parent composable overlays the child composable, but the keyboard still shows up. Ideally Id like to have something akin to how I block touch events.

private fun Modifier.disableInteractions(): Modifier {
    return pointerInput(Unit) {
        awaitPointerEventScope {
            while (true) {
                awaitPointerEvent(Initial).run {
                    changes.forEach(PointerInputChange::consume)
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Ive tried overriding

LocalFocusManager

with a noop one, and

LocalSoftwareKeyboardController

with null; but the keyboard still shows up. I suspect Ill need to create a way to block the entire

Modifier.focusRequester(x)

part as well. Is there an easier way to go about it?

Ultimately ended up creating a

val LocalFocusEnabled: CompositionLocal<Boolean>

that I check before requesting focus. Would I have loved a better way? Yes. Does it work? Yes. If anyone knows a better approach, please enlighten me 😃

BasicTextField2 or the old one?

If the field is showing the keyboard while not focused, that’s definitely a bug

Oh you know what it might be https://issuetracker.google.com/301477279

But still a text field bug, so please file

It was a bit more complicated to repro than I thought, but here it is 😃 Apparently linked to input fields in lazy layouts, I tested

BasicTextField2

as well - but same exact behavior there too!