There's no way to permanently dismiss soft keyboard

[Matt1700]

Currently, there's no way to permanently dismiss the software keyboard in Flutter while maintaining the focus on a text field.

Use case

I'm creating a custom keyboard for an Android kiosk. The keyboard sends events through a Flutter plugin that uses Android runtime.exec("input keyevent KEY_CODE").

This means that the focus needs to stay on the text field in order for the custom keyboard to work.
I've tried calling SystemChannels.textInput.invokeMethod('TextInput.hide'); when a text field is updated but somehow once every few inputs the keyboard shows up for a fraction of a second.

Proposal

I'd like the TextField widget to have a property hideSoftKeyboard that defaults to false.

[Amitpatil215]

#16863

[marcglasberg]

#76072

[jpnurmi]

FYI, TextInputType.none was introduced in #83974:

TextField(
  keyboardType: TextInputType.none,
  ...
)

[creativecreatorormaybenot]

@TahaTesser This can be closed (fixed by #83974 as pointed out by @jpnurmi).

[TahaTesser]

@creativecreatorormaybenot
Thanks!

[TahaTesser]

@jpnurmi
If you see similar issues that need closing, feel free to ping, thanks

[jpnurmi]

Thanks! Will do 👍

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