Opening keyboard in audio recording mode

[rlopes]

Could it be possible to have the ability to trigger the display of the keyboard in audio recording mode by default?
Ideally both Android and iPhone.

[kirillzyusko]

Hi @rlopes

Sorry for the stupid question, but what do you mean by "audio recording mode"? And what is the platform restrictions regarding keyboard?

Can't you create an invisible TextInput and put a focus on this field to trigger keyboard appearance?

[rlopes]

Yes I might not be clear.
What I am referring to is the audio recording button on the Android keyboard or the iPhone keyboard when you want to need to fill up an input field.
By default the virtual keyboard display is set on the characters. One can click on the microphone icon and switch the voice to text. I am wondering if there is a way to pop up the virtual keyboard in that voice to text mode when it opens.

[kirillzyusko]

@rlopes got it. I think it's not possible (at least I haven't seen such behaviour in native applications) - once you set focus on a TextInput it will show a default keyboard. But if you know such apps, where you can tap on TextInput and they open keyboard in dictation mode - let me know, and I will check how they implemented it 👀

Though, I thunk, if you need to use voice recognition - you can use react-native-voice package - it allows to transform a voice to text using the same API that is used by the system (keyboard).

It will not show keyboard UI, but it's even better 😅 - you can implement your own UI using lottie, etc. and make it really beautiful 🙂

Let me know, if I helped you and I can close the issue.

[rlopes]

I have to admit that I don't know any app from the top of my head that does open in dictation mode when a tap happens.
That being said you make good recommendations here. I will explore those.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer my question. Really appreciated.

[kirillzyusko]

@rlopes you are welcome :)

I'm going to close this issue, but if you find something - don't hesitate to report a new one issue or reopen this :)