Can I prevent keyboard suggestions from Xamarin.forms

Question

I\'m trying to use xamarin.forms to develop an Android app and need to prevent completion suggestions on a text field. In vanilla Android I would set the inputtype to type_t

Answer 1

In the code building the user interface for a page, add a Keyboard property to an Entry, and use the Create method to specify the None constant of the KeyboardFlags enumeration. This specifies that no suggested word completions will be offered on text that the user enters.

Content = new StackLayout {
    Padding = new Thickness(0,20,0,0),
    Children = {
        new Entry { Keyboard = Keyboard.Create(KeyboardFlags.None) }
    }
};

Note: this flag will also disable your other flags.

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Additional references:

1. https://stackoverflow.com/a/26978071/3758024
2. https://developer.xamarin.com/recipes/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/controls/choose-keyboard-for-entry/#Specifying_additional_keyboard_options

Answer 2

You mean you want to disable Suggestions shown on the Keypad while you input text in an Entry. In your XAML code just add property Keyboard="Email" in your Entry.

So Finally your code will look like

<Entry Placeholder="Enter the word" Keyboard="Email" />

Hope this answers the question.