[Android] [TextInput] blurOnSubmit doesn't really blur i.e. relinquish focus, it only hides the keyboard

[tejasd]

For an example of what I'm talking about, take a look at the UIExplorer Android app - the cursor is still visible when you submit and the onBlur callback gets called after you select another TextInput.

I've tried debugging it with no luck (I'm an iOS dev). Some paths I've explored:

• Changing the onKeyUp() method to call clearFocus() instead of hideSoftKeyboard() in ReactEditText.java - for some reason the debugger never hits that breakpoint.
• Tried tracing the changes in the blurOnSubmit PR (Enable blurOnSubmit for text input in android #6215) but I hit a roadbloack with trying to understand what's going on

Potential workarounds -
Call the blur() method on the textinput's ref in the TextInput's onSubmitEditing callback

Verified that this is an issue on RN master @ 42cfba5 - 0.24+
Devices: Nexus 5, Genymotion

Would love some help in trying to understand what's going on! Thanks!

[radko93]

I think it's Android's behaviour to not lose focus onBlur. You can look at this.

[tejasd]

Ok, that makes a little more sense. Also, playing around with a few android apps, the more common convention was to not lose focus when you submit. (especially in the context of forms).

However we now have multiple confusing callbacks for TextInput -

1. onBlur

2. onEndEditing

3. onSubmitEditing

I don't understand the difference between 1 and 2. Can someone more familiar point out the differences and/or similarities? Maybe it might be a good idea to simplify the two?

[alexkendall]

Having the same issue with this. Any updates / ways to workaround this issue?

[tejasd]

@alexkendall If you want a specific callback to be triggered and not necessarily have the text field lose focus, I'd recommend using one (or more) of the other callbacks (I'm using onEndEditing and onSubmitEditing).

[CoderStav]

Is there a built-in solution to this on android? It's incredibly frustrating that neither onSubmitEditing or onEndEditing work on android at all. I feel like this should be a bigger problem than google searching would suggest it is.

[afilp]

+1

[inetfuture]

+1

[CoderStav]

+1

[sarovin]

+1

[antoinerousseau]

what about checking for any \n in onChangeText to manually trigger submit?

[huangkaiw3n]

same. just ran into this on android as well.

[abhisheknalin]

+1