c# - How to prevent Xamarin.Forms.Entry Keyboard to be Unfocused when Pressing a Button -

i making chat functionality, , how xaml snippet looks like:

<stacklayout grid.row="1" orientation="horizontal" heightrequest="50">     <entry x:name="chatfield" text="{binding currentmessagetext}" placeholder="{binding messagetextplaceholder}" horizontaloptions="fillandexpand"/>     <button text="send" backgroundcolor="transparent" command="{binding sendmessagecommand}"/> </stacklayout> 

i have entry control , button control binded command sends text in chatfield.

and want mimic chat apps standard wherein pressing send button not unfocus or hides keyboard.

unfortunately, right when press send button - automatically unfocus keyboard entry cell.

initial steps made prevent this, on viewmodel sendmessagecommand have:

var chatentry = currentpage.findbyname<entry>("chatfield"); chatentry.focus(); 

but makes weird behaviour of pushing list view up.

had solved using custom renderer on ios:

    public class chatentryviewrenderer : entryrenderer     {         protected override void onelementpropertychanged(object sender, system.componentmodel.propertychangedeventargs e)         {             if (e.propertyname == visualelement.isfocusedproperty.propertyname)             {                 if (control != null)                 {                     var chatentryview = this.element chatentryview;                     control.shouldendediting = (uitextfield textfield) =>                     {                         return !chatentryview.keepopen; // keepopen custom property added , set on viewmodel if want entry keyboard kept open set true.                     };                 }             }              base.onelementpropertychanged(sender, e);         }     } 

what uses control's shouldendediting event triggers when edittext loses focus or if keyboard unfocused.