Setting the Focus to an Entry in Xamarin.Forms

Question

This is just a simplified example, but I\'m trying to set this up so that when I open up this page in my Application, the first thing that happens is the keyboard pops up re

Answer 1

Use the Focus method

nameentry.Focus();

If you want the focus to be set when your page appears, you should probably do this in the OnAppearing method

    protected override void OnAppearing ()
    {
        base.OnAppearing ();

        nameentry.Focus();
    }