Get the height of the softkeyboard in Adobe AIR Mobile

Question

We're trying to plan out a mobile AIR application that will deploy to both Android and iOS. One of the screens our design team has returned is a fullscreen text editor that runs from the top of the screen to the keyboard. I obviously cannot do this if I cannot grab the height of the keyboard programatically. Is there a way to do this?

I know that it is possible in iOS and it appears to be impossible in Android. I have no issue creating an ANE to do it, but I would rather avoid it if the data is already available in AIR. Alternatively, I could just assume that the keyboard is 1/2 the size of the screen and this would work, for the most part, on iOS just fine.

In short, is getting the height of the softkeyboard possible in AIR?

Answer 1

I believe you can access it using the stage class. Take a look at this.stage.softKeyboardRect within your view.

Note: I have not tried this personally, but you may need to access it after a softkeyboard event. Add an event listener to your text input on softKeyboardActivate, then call this.stage.softKeyboardRect to get the height and position of the keyboard.