The WindowSoftInputMode property on the Activity attribute is ignored

[arielmoraes]

Description

I was playing around with the WindowSoftInputMode modes and where to set them. If you set the mode for the entire App it works as expected, but if you set it for a specific Activity using the attribute the mode is not respected.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a New Maui Project.
Add a few elements to the MainPage to make the ScrollView scrollable
Set the property WindowSoftInputMode to Android.Views.SoftInput.AdjustResize using the Activity attribute on the Android specific folder

Run the app and focus the last Entry, the soft input will pop up and the behavior is adjustPan not adjustResize as desired.

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/arielmoraes/MauiHelloWorld

Version with bug

7.0 (current)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

Android 13

Did you find any workaround?

Not a workaround, but setting it for the entire application works as expected.

Relevant log output

No response

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[PureWeen]

@arielmoraes you can modify this behavior using the following platform specific https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/android/platform-specifics/soft-keyboard-input-mode?view=net-maui-7.0 which is most likely overwriting the change via the attribute.

I'm curious if we can detect that attribute and bypass our code.

[arielmoraes]

@PureWeen I might be wrong here, but I think the windowSoftInputMode option is set per Activity on Android. It's ok to have an application global option, but maybe when using the Activity attribute it should have precedence over the application.

Just to be clear, I haven't set the behavior on the application.

[PureWeen]

@PureWeen I might be wrong here, but I think the windowSoftInputMode option is set per Activity on Android. It's ok to have an application global option, but maybe when using the Activity attribute it should have precedence over the application.

Just to be clear, I haven't set the behavior on the application.

Yea, we should update the docs. That property also works if you specify it on the Window directly. So, if you open different Windows you could apply that property to each window.

dotnet/docs-maui#1388

[Zhanglirong-Winnie]

Verified this issue with Visual Studio Enterprise 17.7.0 Preview 1.0. Can repro on android platform with sample project.
MauiHelloWorld-main.zip