Nativescript Android - hide keyboard

Question

In my Nativescript app, the application starts with the login page. On iOS everything looks good, but on android, the username field is focused and the keyboard is showing. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

So far I have tried:

• Getting a reference of another element (a label) and calling lbl.focus() in the page's onLoaded event
• getting a reference of the username textfield and calling txt.dismissSoftInput() and txt.android.clearFocus()

None of this worked. Is there another way to hide the keyboard when the page is loaded?

Thank you

Answer 1

You want to clear the focus of the field in the loaded callback:

var searchBar = page.getViewById('my-search-bar-id');
if (searchBar.android) {
    searchBar.android.clearFocus();
}

Answer 2

I guess the username field is either textview or textfield. If so, try this on loaded callback:

var myTextview = page.getViewById("myTextView");
myTextView.dismissSoftInput();