How to start EditText (Xamarin.Forms Entry) on number tab?

Question

I'm using an Xamarin.Forms.Entry control to capture input of a barcode which almost always starts from numbers but can contain text. I want to use standard android keyboard (Android.Text.InputTypes.ClassText) but I'd like to start the keyboard on the numbers tab (see picture). Is it possible to get this behaviour?

Answer 1

Based on my test, we could not show that keyboard.

If you want to show the Numeric kayboard, you could set in xml or do the custom renderer.

xml:

<Entry Keyboard="Numeric"></Entry> 

Custom renderer:

var native = Control as EditText;
            native.InputType = Android.Text.InputTypes.ClassNumber | Android.Text.InputTypes.NumberFlagSigned | Android.Text.InputTypes.NumberFlagDecimal | InputTypes.ClassText;

Or create you own keyboard. It is complex. You could follow the steps in the link. https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-create-a-custom-keyboard-with-xamarin-forms-android-4fa3b83dad1d

I do that, it works well. You could download the source file from the link below. https://github.com/FabriBertani/CustomKeyboardXamarinForms