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

In one of my projects I did something like this. Please try the following example:

public class EntryFocusBehavior : Behavior
{
    public string NextFocusElementName { get; set; }

    protected override void OnAttachedTo(Entry bindable)
    {
        base.OnAttachedTo(bindable);
        bindable.Completed += Bindable_Completed;
    }

    protected override void OnDetachingFrom(Entry bindable)
    {
        bindable.Completed -= Bindable_Completed;
        base.OnDetachingFrom(bindable);
    }

    private void Bindable_Completed(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(NextFocusElementName))
            return;

        var parent = ((Entry)sender).Parent;
        while (parent != null)
        {
            var nextFocusElement = parent.FindByName(NextFocusElementName);
            if (nextFocusElement != null)
            {
                nextFocusElement.Focus();
                break;
            }
            else
            {
                parent = parent.Parent;
            }
        }
    }
}

And then XAML:

!!! Please let me know if I made a mistake in the code.