android - 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_text_flag_no_suggestions. Can I do this from xamarin.forms using xaml for the layout?

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.

documentation is not updated but this flag is now added check github.

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