Hey there @@kubaflo! Thank you so much for your PR! Someone from the team will get assigned to your PR shortly and we'll get it reviewed.

I use the following code for testing:

<VerticalStackLayout>
    <Label Text="Tap gesture recognizer with event">
        <Label.GestureRecognizers>
            <TapGestureRecognizer
                Tapped="TapGestureRecognizer_Tapped"/>
        </Label.GestureRecognizers>
    </Label>
    <Label Text="Tap gesture recognizer with command">
        <Label.GestureRecognizers>
            <TapGestureRecognizer
                Command="{Binding TapCommand}"/>
        </Label.GestureRecognizers>
    </Label>
    <Label Text="No tap gesture recognizer"/>
    <Switch>
        <Switch.GestureRecognizers>
            <TapGestureRecognizer
                Tapped="TapGestureRecognizer_Tapped"/>
        </Switch.GestureRecognizers>
    </Switch>
</VerticalStackLayout>

public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
{
	public Command TapCommand { get; set; }
	public MainPage()
	{
		InitializeComponent();

		TapCommand = new Command(() => DisplayAlert("Success", "Command", "OK"));
		BindingContext = this;
	}

	private void TapGestureRecognizer_Tapped(object sender, TappedEventArgs e)
	{
		DisplayAlert("Success", "You tapped", "OK");
	}
}

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@kubaflo I tried this build on Android.

What works well:

• Navigating to labels with gesture recognizers and triggering the gesture recognizers using the keyboard works well.
• Navigating to elements inside of a static grid and triggering the gesture recognizers with the keyboard.

However, I had the following observations as well:

1. Labels and grid items are not highlighted when focused. Edit: The label's Focused event is triggered.
2. Grid tap gesture recognizer is still not triggered if the grid is generated from a data template in a collection view.

For (1), I also found that making labels focusable or clickable (or both) doesn't help. but adding a click listener (Even if it doesn't do anything) to the TextView does enable highlighting. For example:

Microsoft.Maui.Handlers.LabelHandler.Mapper.AppendToMapping("KeyboardFocusable", (handler, view) =>
{
if (handler.PlatformView is TextView nativeTextView && view is Label label && label.GestureRecognizers.Count > 0)
{
nativeTextView.Focusable = true;
nativeTextView.FocusableInTouchMode = true;
nativeTextView.Clickable = true;
nativeTextView.SetOnClickListener(new LabelClickListener(label)); //class LabelClickListener : Java.Lang.Object, global::Android.Views.View.IOnClickListener
}
});

For (2), I created a sample demonstrating the kind of layout I'm referring to and the observed behavior: https://github.com/sum0999/MAUIWithKeyboardSample

@kubaflo I tried this build on Android.

What works well:

• Navigating to labels with gesture recognizers and triggering the gesture recognizers using the keyboard works well.
• Navigating to elements inside of a static grid and triggering the gesture recognizers with the keyboard.

However, I had the following observations as well:

1. Labels and grid items are not highlighted when focused. Edit: The label's Focused event is triggered.
2. Grid tap gesture recognizer is still not triggered if the grid is generated from a data template in a collection view.

For (1), I also found that making labels focusable or clickable (or both) doesn't help. but adding a click listener (Even if it doesn't do anything) to the TextView does enable highlighting. For example:

Microsoft.Maui.Handlers.LabelHandler.Mapper.AppendToMapping("KeyboardFocusable", (handler, view) => { if (handler.PlatformView is TextView nativeTextView && view is Label label && label.GestureRecognizers.Count > 0) { nativeTextView.Focusable = true; nativeTextView.FocusableInTouchMode = true; nativeTextView.Clickable = true; nativeTextView.SetOnClickListener(new LabelClickListener(label)); //class LabelClickListener : Java.Lang.Object, global::Android.Views.View.IOnClickListener } });

For (2), I created a sample demonstrating the kind of layout I'm referring to and the observed behavior: https://github.com/sum0999/MAUIWithKeyboardSample

@sum0999 can you include a screen shot what you mean by "not highlighted"? I'm testing on an API 28 and API 36 device and they both seem to highlight with the tap gestures

@PureWeen Added a couple of videos in addition to the screenshots to make it more clear. When hovering over a label, I can interact with it using Space/Enter, which brings up the alert, but the label is not actually highlighted at all.

If I instead use a ClickHandler like below, then I am able to get the label highlighted, and also the navigation now reaches inside of each grid's text field.

@sum0999 Everything seems to be working as expected. Here’s a video showing the changes from this PR: the focus correctly switches to the grid and then to the label when TapGestureRecognizer is attached to these controls. After removing TapGestureRecognizer from the label, it no longer receives focus, as expected.

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