How do I get the size of the native keyboard?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#21

Any plans on supporting this, at least for iOS? It is pretty essential now and we currently have no way of knowing the sizes of iOS 8 keyboards at all, even though they can be extremely dynamic. At least iOS can be supported if Android doesn’t allow for this possibility?

#22

Note earlier today: “iOS: When a keyboard appears, the window will shift upward so that the selected native textfield/textbox sits above the keyboard.”

https://developer.coronalabs.com/corona-daily-builds/summary

#23

I haven’t tried that yet but it looks like they have addressed the problem. Has anyone tried the latest build (2014.2482)?

#24

There are multiple threads about this topic.  Please go here to continue the conversation:

http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/50905-detect-keyboard-height/

Thanks

Rob

#25

Would be awesome if this feature could get implemented any time soon, especially now with iOS 8 the keyboards are INCREDIBLY dynamic and it is next to impossible to design something properly when you don’t know the actual height of the keyboard that is coming up, covering a huge chunk of your screen. Along with custom keyboards the keyboard height can range between a whole range of different heights nowadays, for example with/without keyboard suggestions, custom downloaded keyboards and so on.

Our only solution right now is just to animate the screen up 300px when the keyboard comes up as that covers most keyboard heights, but when the keyboard is nowhere close to 300px in height, but say 216px which is the standard height without suggestions, the app looks like a total mess.

Implementing this feature would help A LOT as you could make beautiful app ui’s for ALL platforms without worrying too much and it would look equally great on all platforms.

Voted on it on the feature suggestion here, but the suggestion has been there since 2013 without any response from devs so don’t know how much use an additional 3 votes would do.

http://feedback.coronalabs.com/forums/188732-corona-sdk-feature-requests-feedback/suggestions/4267410-get-keyboard-height

#26

Any plans on supporting this, at least for iOS? It is pretty essential now and we currently have no way of knowing the sizes of iOS 8 keyboards at all, even though they can be extremely dynamic. At least iOS can be supported if Android doesn’t allow for this possibility?

#27

Note earlier today: “iOS: When a keyboard appears, the window will shift upward so that the selected native textfield/textbox sits above the keyboard.”

https://developer.coronalabs.com/corona-daily-builds/summary

#28

I haven’t tried that yet but it looks like they have addressed the problem. Has anyone tried the latest build (2014.2482)?

#29

There are multiple threads about this topic.  Please go here to continue the conversation:

http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/50905-detect-keyboard-height/

Thanks

Rob