[React Native] Prevent the On-screen Keyboard from Covering up Text Inputs

When you bring up the on screen keyboard in a mobile app, it will cover any text input or buttons on the bottom half of the screen, which can be frustrating for users. There are a few common ways to deal with this in React Native - and this video shows the following solutions:

First, you can use the built in KeyboardAvoidingView to move components around when the keyboard comes on screen. It has the advantage to being built in to React Native already - but it can be overly complicated to get this approach to work consistently across both iOS and Android.

There is also a third party library called KeyboardAwareScrollView, which will allow your entire view to scroll, and will keep the currently selected text inputs up and out of the way of the keyboard.

 

Install:

npm i -D react-native-keyboard-aware-scroll-view

 

Use:

import { KeyboardAwareScrollView } from 'react-native-keyboard-aware-scroll-view'

export default class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <KeyboardAwareScrollView
        style={{ flex: 1 }}
      >

          <View style={styles.loginHeader}>
            <Text style={styles.headerText}>App Name</Text>
          </View>

          <View style={styles.loginInputs}>
            <Text style={styles.label}>Username</Text>
            <TextInput 
              placeholder="Username"
              style={styles.input}
            />
            <Text style={styles.label}>Password</Text>
            <TextInput 
              placeholder="Password"
              style={styles.input}
              secureTextEntry={true} 
            />
            <TouchableOpacity style={styles.loginButton}>
              <Text style={styles.loginText}>Login</Text>
            </TouchableOpacity>
          </View>

      </KeyboardAwareScrollView>
    );
  }
}