Hide soft iOS keyboard when Bluetooth used?

Questions
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Is there any way to hide the soft/onscreen iOS keyboard, including the single “editing” bar that appears, when using a connected Bluetooth keyboard?

I’ve looked online and through these forums. I understand there is not a way to do this in Lua through Codea (right?), but I’m hoping some of you more experienced coders can at least point me in the right direction of another way to do it. I’m not expecting a solution, just hoping for some ideas of how to approach this.

I have two games where I’ve coded an onscreen keyboard which works well, but as soon as I use showkeyboard() to accept the physical Bluetooth keyboard input & hit a key on the physical keyboard, the iOS keyboard shows.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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If you call showKeyboard and run your app then the software keyboard gets active (and so does the bluetooth connected one). If you call hideKeyboard and run the app both will disappear.

If the software keyboard is visible on screen while you use the bluetooth keyboard for coding, you can hide that with the “eject” button on your bluetooth keyboard

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