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MonoTouch.Dialog: Dismissing keyboard by touching anywhere in DialogViewController

I noticed that when touching outside of the table cell (which I suppose is the ‘section’), the touchesBegan method does not get called so I can’t call EndEditing or ResignFirstReponder.

I am creating a multiline entry element; because of this, the return key goes to a new line instead of “returning”. This is the intended behavior. However, I have no way to dismiss the keyboard then.

I noticed in the settings for menu on the iPhone (General->Keyboard->Shortcuts) or when entering credentials, that touching in the outer area does not resign the responder. Does this mean that this is a limitation of iOS as a whole (or Apple just didn’t see fit in these instances)?

Is there anyway to do this?

There is, what I gather, an identical question here but no one came up with a valid answer:
Can I dismiss the iPhone keyboard by touching the background of DialogViewController (MonoTouch.Dialog)?

Maybe in a year and a half someone has solved it?

Answer 1

miguel.de.icaza answered this question on a different thread:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/10864640/1134836.

His solution:

   var tap = new UITapGestureRecognizer ();
   tap.AddTarget (() =>{
       dvc.View.EndEditing (true);
   });
   dvc.View.AddGestureRecognizer (tap);