keeping the keyboard always open?

i'm building a crossword app so i have a grid view with multiple `InputField`s.

i want the user to navigate freely between them so i have some listeners when a user enters a letter it will automatically go to the next appropriate `InputField`.

in that scenario the previous input field loses focus and it closes the keyboard and then reopens in when the next input field is activated.

is there any way to prevent it? to keep the keyboard open always?

also is there a way to prevent the keyboard from closing when tapping anywhere outside it?

for now i tested it on android and this is the behavior.

thank you all

 

hey, thanks for the reply.

i just created an empty android project and placed 3 random edit texts in it not in any specific order and when switching focus between them (tapping them) the keyboard stays on screen. and it also didn't close if i tapped anywhere else on the screen.

it seems that no matter what in unity if you press outside of the keyboard it will close. no matter if you tap a input field or anything else.

 

i ended up implementing my own custom keyboard. the keyboard in unity is quite a mess for this kind of scenario.