Folks, while looking for a way to prevent the soft keyboard appearing when certain edit fields got the focus, I stumbled upon this <https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/xamarin>. It definitively closes the Xamarin vs MAUI debates.
Xamarin support will end on May 1, 2024 for all Xamarin SDKs. Android 13 and Xcode 14 SDKs (iOS and iPadOS 16, macOS 13) will be the final versions Xamarin will target. In the meantime, I'm still stuck finding a simple way of hiding the keyboard when a page opens and a specific edit field is given focus. The text will be entered with a barcode scanner, so the soft keyboard is a useless distraction that covers important information. However, if you tap the edit field then the keyboard must appear. Web searches produce no trustworthy answers to try yet, just arguments and complaints. *Greg*
