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

So long as the element to focus on is the topmost element, this should work. I place this in the OnAppearing method.

base.OnAppearing();
Entry entry = this.FindByName("NameOfEntryElement");
entry.Focus();

The source of this info is here: https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/100354/entry-focus-not-working-for-android

There is further discussion in the article about timing issues.