Removing Text Suggestions for Entry & EditText

Question

I have an Entry in a Xamarin.Forms app, and I want the displayed keyboard to not display suggestions while typing. I have created a Custom Renderer for the Entry, and have tried setting IsSpellCheckEnabled="False" and IsTextPredictionEnabled="False" in the Entry in Xamarin.Forms, and I have tried setting this.Control.InputType = InputTypes.TextFlagNoSuggestions and this.Control.SetRawInputType(InputTypes.TextFlagNoSuggestions) in the Custom Renderer, but neither one seemed to help. What can I do to disable text suggestions for an Entry/EditText? Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello,

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Try to set InputTypes as TextVariationVisiblePassword, it works fine on my side .

   [assembly : ExportRenderer(typeof(Entry),typeof(MyRenderer))]  
   namespace FormsApp.Droid  
   {  
       class MyRenderer : EntryRenderer  
       {  
           public MyRenderer(Context context):base(context)  
           {  
                 
           }  
     
           protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<Entry> e)  
           {  
               base.OnElementChanged(e);  
               if(Control != null)  
               {  
                   Control.InputType = Android.Text.InputTypes.TextVariationVisiblePassword;  
               }  
           }  
       }  
   }  


 

Thank you.

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