Programmatically change the EditableTextBase's widgets keyboardType property

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Tell us about the problem

I tried to change textfield/textview widget’s keyboardType property Programmatically/Dynamically based on some other widget’s onTap event. But i can’t able to refer the keyboardType property to the textfield reference in .ts file.

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

Android

Please provide the following version numbers that your issue occurs with:

• CLI: 3.0.3
• Cross-platform modules: 3.1.0
• Runtime(s): 3.2.0

Is there code involved? If so, please share the minimal amount of code needed to recreate the problem.

public changeKB(args){ let cont = <View>this.texfield.nativeElement; if(args == "num"){ cont.android.keyboardType="number"; } else if(args == "normal"){ cont.android.keyboardType="email"; } }

Regarding this i have raised the topic on NS forum [thread].(https://discourse.nativescript.org/t/programmatically-change-the-editabletextbases-widgets-keyboardtype-property/2665)

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@NickIliev it doesn’t appear to be working as per the information in this issue. Below is a playground of which the keyboard type is completely ignored, unless set via the attribute.

https://play.nativescript.org/?template=play-ng&id=IA4TRB&v=2

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