Keyboard immediately closes on Android (react-native-screens: v3.13.1)

[arron-olio]

Description

When upgrading from react-native-screens 3.10.1 to 3.13.1, the keyboard won't stay open. It will immediately close after opening and does not allow a user to type into a Text Input. We observed this behaviour on Android only.

Our fix was to downgrade back to react-native-screens 3.10.1

Steps To Reproduce

1. Upgrade react-native-screens

Expected behavior

Keyboard opens and stays open after clicking on a text input

Actual behavior

Keyboard immediately closes after opening (after clicking on a TextInput)

Reproduction

We found the only way to reproduce this issue was to upgrade to 3.13.1

Platform

• [ ] iOS
• [X] Android
• [ ] Web
• [ ] Windows
• [ ] tvOS

package	version
react-native	0.64.2
@react-navigation/native	5.9.8
react-native-screens	3.10.1
react-native-safe-area-context	3.3.2
react-native-gesture-handler	1.10.3
react-native-reanimated	1.9.0

[shamilovtim]

We are still experiencing this and stuck on older versions #1342

[WoLewicki]

Can you provide a repository where it can be reproduced? It will make it simpler to debug it.

[Vantam1601]

use "react-native-screens": "^3.10.1", it working

[janicduplessis]

This seems to happen when using react-navigation. If you create a simple stack with a screen with a text input, click on input the soft keyboard is immediately dismissed.

import { View, TextInput } from 'react-native';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createStackNavigator } from '@react-navigation/stack';

const TestStack = createStackNavigator();

function TestScreen() {
  return (
    <View style={{ padding: 16, flex: 1, backgroundColor: 'white' }}>
      <TextInput placeholder="Hello" />
    </View>
  );
}

function TestApp() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <TestStack.Navigator>
        <TestStack.Screen name="test" component={TestScreen} />
      </TestStack.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

[hirbod]

Interesting. For me this issue only happens when I have autoFocus set. It will open the keyboard and closes it immediately. But tapping on it works for me, at least in my setup. (native-stack).

Looks like downgrading to 3.11 does circumvent the issues for now.

[alessioemireni]

Same issue here. Looks like the issue is reproducible only with old Android devices.

[KrisLau]

Same issue here. It also has been noted in numerous other forums:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71227463/react-native-textinput-closes-automatically-when-opened-on-android
• https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/33164

[mzpeartx]

We had this issue as well. Rolling back to 3.11.1 resolved the issue for us. 3.12.0 seemed to be the version that introduced this issue.

[levani]

I can also confirm that 3.11.1 works without this issue but 3.12.0 does not.

[Andriiklymiuk]

3.15.0 has the same issue

[hirbod]

I upgraded to SDK 46 (dev client) today and I can confirm that my inputs are closing now. Not always, but a lot of times.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/504909/184336331-8c64f3a2-a41f-4184-9702-544cb18b37e2.mov