Hi everyone, I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but I certainly wish I had known this earlier. For a long time, I struggled with getting the keyboard to behave smoothly and predictable on Android devices when building an app with Ionic/Angular. The main issue was that the keyboard would often resize the layout abruptly and covering input field, overall creating a poor UX. I spent a lot of time searching for solutions, tweaking different configurations and trying to find a way to prevent the keyboard from causing these issues. I tried using android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" in the Android manifest, but that didn't solve it. I also tried with different keyboardResize options in the Capacitor config (Ionic, Body, Native), but none of them gave me the smooth behavior I was looking for. After some more searching around, I found a thread on Github about a niche that isn't well documented in Ionic's official documentation - at least not that I could find. This feature ended up being the solution to my problem. I'll provide the solution in my answer below Continue reading...
