[Feature] Helper to dismiss keyboard

Currently, as far as I can tell, you have to have a reference to a TextField or similar in order to call the dismissSoftInput method. This feels hacky when, for instance, you want to dismiss the keyboard when a certain action is taken by a user in order to show more of the screen.

This is the only way that I know of to dismiss the keyboard, whether or not the field is focused:

const field = <TextField>this.page.getViewById('first-name');
field.dismissSoftInput();

I don’t think that this code clearly expresses the intent of the developer, and could be more concise with something such as:

this.page.dismissSoftInput();

If something similar to this approach is already possible, please let me know.

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[darylteo]

@bearoutthere thank you so much for that code for ios!

Just want to note that there is a typo, which took me awhile to figure out. The single quote is in the wrong place. Don’t copy and paste without reading, folks!

import * as nsutils from 'tns-core-modules/utils/utils';
import { ios } from 'tns-core-modules/application';

export const hideKeyboard = () => {
    if (ios) {
        ios.nativeApp.sendActionToFromForEvent('resignFirstResponder', null, null, null);
    } else {
        nsutils.ad.dismissSoftInput();
    }
};

[bhavincb]

if nativescript can provide extra event binding support like ‘focus’ and ‘blur’ than it will be great to have it.