Which (Ionic) Keyboard to use?

Ionic Native
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Hi,
In the Ionic Docs I can see that we’d have use ionic-plugin-keyboard (with the corresponding npm package), but on the gitHub page of that plugin it says that the plugin is deprecated and we’d have to use cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard. Also on the gitHub page I see we can use some methods. But how can I access those in code? What do I have to import so I’d be able to use those methods in my code? Cann’t find anything about that in the docs…

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question still standing…

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you can use them like this:
import { Keyboard } from '@ionic-native/keyboard';

and in constructor:

    public keyboard: Keyboard,

this.keyboard.onKeyboardShow().subscribe(() => {
      doSomething();
    });
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I tried to use the @ionic-native/keyboard but as far as I can see the methods aren’t matching.
The ionic-plugin-keyboard is different then cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard.

I’m using cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard because at the github page of ionic-plugin-keyboard it says that the plugin is deprecated and there is written to use the cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard.

That’s why I’m a bit confused… Which one are you using?

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"ionic-plugin-keyboard": "~2.2.1",
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Okay thank you…

Can someone please explain why it says (on the github page) that the plugin ionic-plugin-keyboard is deprecated and we should use cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard instead??


Verry confusing…

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Because it’s been deprecated.

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But you can still use it, and its fine.

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I can see that yes but what I actually meant was:
In the current Ionic docs the https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/keyboard/ refers to ionic-plugin-keyboard. BUTT, the ionic-plugin-keyboard github repo https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-plugin-keyboard says it is deprecated. Why is the plugin deprecated on the github page and why is the Ionic Docs refererring to that deprecated plugin.?

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The main docs are always behind. Take the Ionic docs as a good first step, and then read the docs of whatever specific piece you’re interested in.

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Okay, good to know. Will work that way then…

One final (off-topic) related question. Is there a way to check (without the onKeyboardShow/Hide) if the keyboard is open?

(( e.g. in cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard there’s a property called Keyboard.isVisible ))

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probably not because this is useless and replaceable in most scenarios

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Okay, that’ll do it then…
Thanks for your help and time.