open text input box and focus on external keyboard button press

[damex]

hello,
currently there is no reaction to events from external keyboard beside typing to text input box when you already select it.

it would be nice if we could select input box (for example) with pressing enter/return button on external keyboard to get input box open (if it is not opened yet) and to move focus to the text input box to start typing.

thank you.

[guruz]

...or have the input field always be focused no matter what? (IF external keyboard is connected)

[phuzion]

If you're going to detect external keyboard presence, can I also request that the tab button (from PR #10) be hidden when there is an external keyboard present?

[phuzion]

To add onto my previous comment, we should also detect when the on-screen keyboard includes a tab key (see the 2020 11" iPad Pro below, and other similar models) and hide the custom Tab button.

[phuzion]

Also, as another side note, the tab key in the aforementioned on-screen keyboard does not work, it inserts a tab character. I've tested this on both a 2020 iPad Pro 11" and in the corresponding Simulator in Xcode.