nativescript-keyboardShowing

A NativeScript plugin to deal knowing if the keyboard is showing or hiding.

This is an updated fork to work with NativeScript 6.

License

This is released under the MIT License, meaning you are free to include this in any type of program -- However for entities that need a support contract, changes, enhancements and/or a commercial license please contact the original author at http://nativescript.tools.

Installation

npm install dosomder/nativescript-keyboardshowing#master

Usage

import keyboard from "nativescript-keyboardshowing";

keyboard.addNotifyKeyboardAction(showing => {
  console.log("keyboardshowing: ", showing.showing);
});

Known issues

Sometimes if the page changes (e.g. component is removed), keyboard tracking might get lost on Android. To fix this you can call:

keyboard.refreshListener();

If you keep losing tracking, you can put it in an interval:

setInterval(keyboard.refreshListener, 1000);

You ask, how exactly does this help?

Have you ever needed to know if the Soft-keyboard is showing? This plugin gives you that information via a event or a function call.

You can add to any page you need it the following Function:

exports.onKeyboard = function(args) { }

args.showing = true | false

args.object = the current page

Additional Helper Method

import keyboard from "nativescript-keyboardshowing";

keyboard.isShowing()

returns: true or false

import keyboard from "nativescript-keyboardshowing";
console.log("keyboard is", keyboard.isShowing() ? "showing" : "hidden");