Anyone knowing better than me, whats standard on iOS for the keyboard to have in apps? Seems like it...

# compose-ios

[Joel Denke]

Anyone knowing better than me, whats standard on iOS for the keyboard to have in apps? Seems like its different from app to app.
When using CMP I experience an issue where you cant as user dismiss keyboard in iOS 😄
In those cases if click outside usually dismisses keyboard but in CMP it does not.
In Android can close keyboard.
Do you need to control some flags or something to make it focusable on other compose elements outside of the keyboard?
As I am not an iPhone user myself, very hard to know whats "expected" 😄

[Alexander Zhirkevich]

You can use this to hide keyboard on click outside

[Joel Denke]

Wtf really, but why doesnt TextField having this default in CMP? But is that standard behaviour in iOS apps?

[Alexander Zhirkevich]

But is that standard behaviour in iOS apps

No it's not

[Joel Denke]

Then I dont want it 😄

[Joel Denke]

What should it be in iOS to make it native?

[Joel Denke]

I checked SPotify app, and there they using keyboard overlay in iOS, but felt like maybe not best app compare with?

[Joel Denke]

Very confusing as I am in Android expect to have something else, so I need to have if else checks per platform 😄

[Joel Denke]

In my case I have a Bottomsheet, with x amount of text input fields with questions coming from BE, so its dynamic.
And then in bottom of bottomsheet having save button. How should ime surfaces for keyboard behave in iOS?

[Alexander Zhirkevich]

> What should it be in iOS to make it native
Click outside is fine. Most of native apps do the same.

[Joel Denke]

But is that standard behaviour in iOS apps
No it's not

What did you mean by this then? :S

[Alexander Zhirkevich]

As far as i remember if you just place a text field inside empty swiftui page then click outside will not dismiss the keyboard. You need to resignFirstReponder manually what ios devs do

[Alexander Zhirkevich]

You can check it to be sure

[Joel Denke]

Any example from compose perspective how to achieve that, and not destory how my code works in Android? 😛 I would love to avoid having expect/actual override Jetbrains override in iOS 😄

[Alexander Zhirkevich]

ClearFocusBox will be fine both for Android and iOS

[Joel Denke]

Not really nice to have that behaviour in Andorid apps, as it will in many cases dismiss keyboard when not want to.
But where to put ClearFocuxBox, around the input field or around the entire screen?

[Alexander Zhirkevich]

Wherever you want keyboard to be closed

[Joel Denke]

Yeah but in my case I guess I wrap entire bottomsheet?

[Joel Denke]

Doesnt work for me, now keyboard closed all the time instead.
I have code like:

ModalBottomSheet {
 ClearFocusBox(Modifier.fillMaxSize()) {

            Column(
                modifier = modifier.fillMaxSize()
            ) {
                ... input fields here
}}

[Joel Denke]

@Alexander Zhirkevich Anyway thanks for pointers in this 🙂 TO bad it doesnt work.
I realized another problem when having multiple input fields, and one focuses and click on another it will be closed and then opened again I think or collide doing both counter action.
So have to be click outside IME keyboard but not if click on input field I guess?