PhoneGap Plugin for capturing keystrokes - iPhone & Android required

A fun, small project that will be open sourced under your name! THE PROBLEM.... We have a hosted web app wrapped in PhoneGap for iPhone & Android. The app needs to integrate with laser barcode scanners (NOT camera based scanners). We've chosen Bluetooth scanners that support HID protocol - or in other words they just act like a keyboard. When you scan a barcode, the characters are sent to whatever app or control is active as separate keystrokes. Because our app is web based, we were hoping to just capture the keystrokes by listening to the [login to view URL] event in Javascript. The problem is that iOS devices, and to a large extent Android devices will NOT trigger this event unless a text field currently has focus. This means that the user would always need to tap on a special text field in the app before scanning a barcode - which we don't want. We've tried every kind of method of using hidden input fields, focusing via javascript etc but none are viable. THE PROJECT... So we have an idea (and we're not 100% sure it's possible) - but we would like a PhoneGap plugin to be written that can capture the keystrokes natively, then trigger an event in the WebView that our web app can then pick up. The WebView must not need focus on a text field for this to work - otherwise it defeats the purpose of the project. Because we target iPhones & Android, you will need to write the plugin natively in Objective C for iPhone, and Java for Android. Another requirement is that the plugin must be submitted to PhoneGap Build for approval - as this is what we use for building. See the PhoneGap Build requirements here: [login to view URL] Finally, this project must be open sourced under the MIT licence in order to be submitted to PhoneGap Build. We are happy for the work to be fully attributed to the developer.