DeviceStatus Events

While DeviceStatus allows you to retrieve device information, it also includes the following two events:

Image KeyboardDeployedChanged

Image PowerSourceChanged

If the phone device has a hardware keyboard, such as a sliding keyboard, the KeyboardDeployedChanged event allows you to detect when the keyboard is extended.

You can subscribe to the KeyboardDeployedChanged event as shown:

DeviceStatus.KeyboardDeployedChanged += HandleKeyboardDeployedChanged;

The event handler can be used to determine whether the keyboard is deployed using the ...

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