React-native: keyboardWillShow does not fire on Android
As per https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/10613#issuecomment-300121457
This is easy to verify by searching the repo and verifying that the keyboardWillShow string does not exist in the React Native Android codebase: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=keyboardWillShow&type=
brentvatne
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AFAIK we meed to listen to root view size changes to detect when keyboard is shown/hidden. So I am not sure if willX events can even be implemented.
satya164
on 31 May 2017
I can only add to whats @satya164 saying. As with my knowledge in this as well there is no way to actually discover when a soft keyboard will happen. May I ask in what use-case this would be needed? I know people are using will* to make transitions "faster" on IOS.
ptomasroos
on 31 May 2017
@ptomasroos - I think it's less about making them "faster" and instead making them more responsive, so it can animate while the keyboard is opening rather than waiting until it has opened. I don't have a personal use case but just copied this over from #10613.
If anyone reads this and knows if it's possible to hook into a notification for the soft keyboard beginning to open on Android, let us know here!
brentvatne
on 31 May 2017
Yea keyboard handling is really bad on Android, there is no event triggered so the way used to detect when it opens is to use a layout listener on the window and check if the height changed. Doing this means there is only one event triggered, the only thing we could do is trigger both keyboardWillShow and keyboardDidShow at the same time so the behavior is closer to iOS but that may not be really useful...
janicduplessis
on 6 Jun 2017
It sounds like the best thing to do is clearly document this limitation then. Any takers?
brentvatne
on 6 Jun 2017
Just opened a PR for this. Its my very first so if I did anything wrong please let me know.
DukeNukem1990
on 6 Jun 2017
If this is still open, I'd like to work on this.
reznord
on 13 Jun 2017
I've added 'adjustNothing' to AndroidManifest with the latest react native - 0.51.0-rc.2- this does not work -
evanjmg
on 1 Dec 2017
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Yea keyboard handling is really bad on Android, there is no event triggered so the way used to detect when it opens is to use a layout listener on the window and check if the height changed. Doing this means there is only one event triggered, the only thing we could do is trigger both
keyboardWillShowandkeyboardDidShowat the same time so the behavior is closer to iOS but that may not be really useful...