7 -> 8 migration - hide keyboard

[ShannyWorkiz]

Hey!
I used to work with java-client version 7.3.0, when moving to 8.0.0 the driver.hideKeyboard() is not accessible anymore.
Does anyone face this issue?

where my drive was set as:
public static AppiumDriver driver;

` public static void initDriver(String className) throws Exception {
Drivers.setDefaultParams();
URL url = new URL(props.getProperty("appiumUrl"));
switch (props.getProperty("platformName").toLowerCase()) {
case "android":
driver = Drivers.setAndroidDriver(url, className);
currentPlatform = "android";
break;
case "ios":
driver = Drivers.setIosDriver(url, className);
currentPlatform = "ios";
break;
default:
throw new RuntimeException("'platformName' property value is not valid! Got: " + props.getProperty("platformName"));
}
logger.info("driver initialized: " + driver);
}
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public static void setDefaultParams(){
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("platformName", props.getProperty("platformName"));
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("autoGrantPermissions", true);
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("sessionTimeout", "5m");
}
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public static AppiumDriver setAndroidDriver(URL url, String className) throws MalformedURLException {
    logger.info("Setting android driver..");
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("automationName", props.getProperty("androidAutomationName"));
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appPackage", props.getProperty("androidAppPackage"));
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appActivity", props.getProperty("androidAppActivity"));
    if (props.getProperty("emulator").equalsIgnoreCase("true")) {
        desiredCapabilities.setCapability("deviceName", props.getProperty("mobileName"));
        desiredCapabilities.setCapability("uuid", props.getProperty("uuid"));
        desiredCapabilities.setCapability("avd", props.getProperty("deviceName"));
        desiredCapabilities.setCapability("avdLaunchTimeout", 120000);

    }
    if (props.getProperty("browserstack").equalsIgnoreCase("true")){
        return setAndroidBrowserStackDriver(className);
    }

    String androidAppUrl = new File("src/main/resources/release/app-release.apk").getAbsolutePath().toString();
    logger.info("appUrl is" + androidAppUrl);
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("app", androidAppUrl);
    return driver = new AndroidDriver(url, desiredCapabilities);
}
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public static AppiumDriver setIosDriver(URL url, String className) throws MalformedURLException{
    logger.info("Setting IOS driver...");
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("automationName", props.getProperty("iOSAutomationName"));
    logger.info("appUrl is" + props.getProperty("iOSAppLocation"));
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("app", props.getProperty("iOSAppLocation"));
    desiredCapabilities.setCapability("bundleId", props.getProperty("iOSBundleId"));
    if (props.getProperty("browserstack").equalsIgnoreCase("true")){
        return setAndroidBrowserStackDriver(className);
    }
   return driver = new IOSDriver(url, desiredCapabilities);
}`

[valfirst]

https://github.com/appium/java-client/blob/master/docs/v7-to-v8-migration-guide.md#appiumdriver
You should either use specific driver implementation (e.g. use IOSDriver instead of AppiumDriver) or cast your driver instance to io.appium.java_client.HidesKeyboard