Ionic 2 <ion-content> height dynamically changes while showing keyboard on device

The canonical issue for extra component padding sticking around after keyboard interaction is bug: Keyboard pushes the whole screen up · Issue #5432 · ionic-team/ionic-framework · GitHub.

@fredy26, I’ve chosen a workaround that turns off the ionic-internal keyboard padding and falls back to the device native behavior. You might be able to make use of my notes in another forum thread: