react-native-text-input-reset

This package provides a temporary hack around a bug found in some android
keyboards so that the contents of a TextInput can be properly cleared.
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36928977

It's likely this will be solved in a future release of React Native.
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/12462

Getting started

$ yarn add react-native-text-input-reset

$3

$ react-native link react-native-text-input-reset

$3

#### Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java
- Add import com.nikolaiwarner.RNTextInputReset.RNTextInputResetPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
- Add new RNTextInputResetPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method
2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:
``
include ':react-native-text-input-reset'
project(':react-native-text-input-reset').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-text-input-reset/android')
`
3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:
`
compile project(':react-native-text-input-reset')
`

Usage


`javascript
import TextInputReset from 'react-native-text-input-reset';

// Clear text input and keyboard suggestions
TextInputReset.resetKeyboardInput(findNodeHandle(this.textInputRef))
``