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flutter_keyboard_visibility

Flutter plugin for discovering the state of the soft-keyboard visibility on Android and iOS.

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Install package

flutter pub add flutter_keyboard_visibility

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A Flutter plugin that detects the visibility state of the soft keyboard on Android, iOS, and other supported platforms. It provides real-time updates when the keyboard appears or disappears, enabling developers to adjust UI layouts dynamically. Ideal for forms, chat interfaces, and any app requiring responsive design based on keyboard presence. The plugin works across mobile and desktop platforms, ensuring consistent behavior. It integrates seamlessly with Flutter's state management systems.

Use cases

  • Dynamic form layout adjustment
  • Chat interface responsiveness
  • Auto-scrolling to focused fields
  • Responsive UI during keyboard input
  • Cross-platform keyboard detection

Key features

  • Real-time keyboard visibility events
  • Supports Android, iOS, Web, macOS, Windows, and Linux
  • Simple stream-based API
  • Works with all Flutter state management approaches
  • Lightweight and reliable

Suitable for

  • Apps with dynamic UI layouts
  • Form-heavy applications
  • Chat or messaging apps
  • Developers targeting multiple platforms
  • UI/UX optimization teams

Considerations

  • Requires handling stream subscriptions properly
  • May need additional logic for complex layouts
  • Not suitable for non-interactive UI elements
  • Limited to keyboard visibility, not input method switching
  • Best used with proper error handling in streams

Original README

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Flutter Keyboard Visibility

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React to keyboard visibility changes.

Note about Flutter Web and Desktop support

Web support is an open issue here, desktop support is an open issue here. Currently this library will just return false for keyboard visibility on web and desktop.

Install

Install the package

Usage: React to Keyboard Visibility Changes

Option 1: Within your Widget tree using a builder

Build your Widget tree based on whether or not the keyboard is visible by using KeyboardVisibilityBuilder.

import 'package:flutter_keyboard_visibility/flutter_keyboard_visibility.dart';

/// In any of your widgets...
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return KeyboardVisibilityBuilder(
      builder: (context, isKeyboardVisible) {
        return Text(
          'The keyboard is: ${isKeyboardVisible ? 'VISIBLE' : 'NOT VISIBLE'}',
        );
      }
  );
Option 2: Within your Widget tree using a provider

Build your Widget tree based on whether or not the keyboard is visible by including a KeyboardVisibilityProvider near the top of your tree.

import 'package:flutter_keyboard_visibility/flutter_keyboard_visibility.dart';

// Somewhere near the top of your tree...
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return KeyboardVisibilityProvider(
    child: MyDemoPage(),
  );
}

// Within MyDemoPage...
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  final bool isKeyboardVisible = KeyboardVisibilityProvider.isKeyboardVisible(context);
  return Text(
    'The keyboard is: ${isKeyboardVisible ? 'VISIBLE' : 'NOT VISIBLE'}',
  );
}
Option 3: Direct query and subscription

Query and/or subscribe to keyboard visibility directly with the KeyboardVisibilityController class.

import 'package:flutter_keyboard_visibility/flutter_keyboard_visibility.dart';
import 'dart:async';

late StreamSubscription<bool> keyboardSubscription;

@override
void initState() {
  super.initState();

  var keyboardVisibilityController = KeyboardVisibilityController();
  // Query
  print('Keyboard visibility direct query: ${keyboardVisibilityController.isVisible}');

  // Subscribe
  keyboardSubscription = keyboardVisibilityController.onChange.listen((bool visible) {
    print('Keyboard visibility update. Is visible: $visible');
  });
}

@override
void dispose() {
  keyboardSubscription.cancel();
  super.dispose();
}

Usage: Dismiss keyboard on tap

Place a KeyboardDismissOnTap near the top of your Widget tree. When a user taps outside of the currently focused Widget, the Widget will drop focus and the keyboard will be dismissed.

import 'package:flutter_keyboard_visibility/flutter_keyboard_visibility.dart';

// Somewhere near the top of your tree...
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return KeyboardDismissOnTap(
    child: MyDemoPage(),
  );
}

By default KeyboardDismissOnTap will only dismiss taps not captured by other interactive Widgets, like buttons. If you would like to dismiss the keyboard for any tap, including taps on interactive Widgets, set dismissOnCapturedTaps to true.

import 'package:flutter_keyboard_visibility/flutter_keyboard_visibility.dart';

// Somewhere near the top of your tree...
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return KeyboardDismissOnTap(
    dismissOnCapturedTaps: true,
    child: MyDemoPage(),
  );
}

The IgnoreKeyboardDismiss Widget can be used to further refine which taps do and do not dismiss the keyboard. Checkout the example app for more detail.

Testing

Testing using mocks

KeyboardVisibilityProvider and KeyboardVisibilityBuilder accept a controller parameter that allow you to mock or replace the logic for reporting keyboard visibility updates.

@GenerateMocks([KeyboardVisibilityController])
void main() {
  testWidgets('It reports true when the keyboard is visible', (WidgetTester tester) async {
    // Pretend that the keyboard is visible.
    var mockController = MockKeyboardVisibilityController();
    when(mockController.onChange)
        .thenAnswer((_) => Stream.fromIterable([true]));
    when(mockController.isVisible).thenAnswer((_) => true);

    // Build a Widget tree and query KeyboardVisibilityProvider
    // for the visibility of the keyboard.
    bool? isKeyboardVisible;

    await tester.pumpWidget(
      KeyboardVisibilityProvider(
        controller: mockController,
        child: Builder(
          builder: (BuildContext context) {
            isKeyboardVisible =
                KeyboardVisibilityProvider.isKeyboardVisible(context);
            return SizedBox();
          },
        ),
      ),
    );

    // Verify that KeyboardVisibilityProvider reported that the
    // keyboard is visible.
    expect(isKeyboardVisible, true);
  });
}
Testing with a global override

Call KeyboardVisibilityTesting.setVisibilityForTesting(false); to set a custom value to use during flutter test. This is set globally and will override the standard logic of the native platform.

void main() {
  testWidgets('My Test', (WidgetTester tester) async {
    KeyboardVisibilityTesting.setVisibilityForTesting(true);
    await tester.pumpWidget(MyApp());
  });
}

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Dependencies

Dependency list 6 items

  • flutter_keyboard_visibility_linux^2.0.0
  • flutter_keyboard_visibility_macos^2.0.0
  • flutter_keyboard_visibility_platform_interface^3.0.0
  • flutter_keyboard_visibility_web^3.0.0
  • flutter_keyboard_visibility_windows^2.0.0
  • meta^1.18.0

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