react-native: Keyboard events not working on Android

i still cannot get the event working on RN42,

    componentDidMount(){
        this.kbe = Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidShow', this.showMessage);
    }
   showMessage =()=> {
       alert('keyboardup');
    }

Still an issue with react-native 0.50.0, is this being worked on? Can this be reopened?

@jonas-arkulpa I’m also trying to get https://github.com/wix/react-native-keyboard-aware-scrollview to work on Android. I’m noticing another difference between the behavior of iOS and Android.

It looks like ‘keyboardDidShow’ fires every time when entering a TextField on iOS even if the keyboard is up. In Android it only fires once, that is if the keyboard is already up it doesn’t fire when entering a TextField. The Android behavior seems more correct but unfortunately I actually want the iOS behavior. It would be great if the behavior was consistent.

Tried this on a new 0.36 project and it works as expected:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
  AppRegistry,
  StyleSheet,
  Keyboard,
  Text,
  TextInput,
  View
} from 'react-native';

export default class KeyboardTesting extends Component {
  state = {
    open: false,
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.keyboardDidShowListener = Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidShow', this._keyboardDidShow);
    this.keyboardDidHideListener = Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidHide', this._keyboardDidHide);
  }

  _keyboardDidShow = () => {
    this.setState({open: true});
  }

  _keyboardDidHide = () => {
    this.setState({open: false});
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <TextInput style={{width: 300, height: 50}} placeholder="Hello" />
        <Text>{this.state.open ? 'open' : 'closed'}</Text>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#F5FCFF',
  },
});

AppRegistry.registerComponent('KeyboardTesting', () => KeyboardTesting);

I’m not sure what is needed to make it work – if you have a lot of custom Android code it might be worth creating a new project, copying the android directory in and overwriting everything and then painfully stepping over the diff to see what is missing. Let us know what you find!