Hi, I'm playing with Jetpack Compose I've faced one problem - soft keyboard + `TextField` focus insi...

# compose

[radzio]

Hi, I'm playing with Jetpack Compose I've faced one problem - soft keyboard + TextField focus inside scrollable Column.

I don't know how to scroll Column to the selected/focused TextField

I've creates stackoverflow question too: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66249829/jetpack-compose-scroll-to-focused-composable-in-column

Can someone tell me what is the best approach for this?

I don't need/want use LazyColumn (not so many TextFields)

[Timo Drick]

Maybe this will help you: https://chrisbanes.github.io/accompanist/insets/

[radzio]

Unfortunately I didn't help 😞

[radzio]

It seems that I've found working solution, but I'm not sure if it is the best one

I've used onGloballyPositioned and it works.

var scrollToPosition = 0.0F

TextField(
   modifier = Modifier
    .focusOrder(countryFocus)
    .onGloballyPositioned { coordinates ->
        scrollToPosition = scrollState.value + coordinates.positionInRoot().y
    }
    .onFocusChanged {
    if (it == FocusState.Active) {
        scope.launch {
            scrollState.smoothScrollTo(scrollToPosition)
        }
    }
}
)

[Sean McQuillan [G]]

cc @Adam Powell ^

[Sean McQuillan [G]]

That works, though I wonder if there's a more efficient way we can recommend

[Adam Powell]

I can't remember where exactly we are with regard to the requestChildRectOnScreen equivalents. I'd try to scope the above to just the scrolling container rather than the global root

[Sean McQuillan [G]]

tracking down ticket...

[Sean McQuillan [G]]

Found it https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/178211874 (apparently it was assigned to me for two days once upon a time 🙂 )

[chris]

@Sean McQuillan [G] Trying to view it and received Access denied

[Sean McQuillan [G]]

Ah sorry that's on an internal tracker 😞

[Sean McQuillan [G]]

tl;dr It's tracking the larger work required to make textfield focus scroll things