Keyboard covers field during input..should I worry about Play rejection?

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artist RewCa

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Feb 23, 2015, 10:30:38 PM2/23/15
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I have several fields the user can enter data. 

When they begin to enter numbers, the screen does not slide up so the text field can be visible.  Instead, the keyboard covers up the entry field. 
Will this pass Play "rules?" 

Enis

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Feb 24, 2015, 12:53:27 AM2/24/15
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Yes, it won't affect anything having to do with Google Play. 

Hiding the keyboard is an easy task, but you have to do it in an event.  For each textbox, in the LostFocus event, use a hide.keyboard block for the textbox you are leaving.  Then the keyboard will pop up under the next textbox the user selects.  Then you have to close that one too as you move to the next... A bit of a pain, but doable.

artist RewCa

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Feb 24, 2015, 10:01:15 PM2/24/15
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Thanks,

It's not the hiding of the keyboard but the fact that as a user I can't see the field I am typing in.  e.g., if I want to enter 1000, I can't see how many times I pressed 0.  Or, if the field was a 10 digit number, I could not see what I typed until I pressed Enter on the Keyboard.  I think in Apple user guidelines a user must see the data they are entering..Some window feature slid up the screen so input could be seen, and slid back down once finished.    But I tried to glance Play rules and found nothing (yet).  I am considering having the text being entered shadow on some field at the top of the window (if that's possible).


Another example is when I use a timepicker on my emulator and I begin to type in a number (instead of touching up/down), the keyboard almost completely covers the set or cancel buttons.  It almost prevents me from continuing.

No need to reply... I really, really appreciate your help. 


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