I want to keep the keyboard displayed at the bottom by default without using a text input which the user needs to tap.
I need to keep the keyboard at the bottom at all times.
Then I need to listen to the events of the keyboard.
How can I do this?
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The workaround I implemented was adding an invisible text box somewhere on the screen and then set it as focused manually.
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Just in case someone else might stumble upon this, OP's self answer works. In order to set focus manually, you'll need to get the ref to the hidden input.
<TextInput
ref={input => (this.textinput = input)}
style={{ display: 'none' }}
/>
then elsewhere in the code, you focus manually by
if (this.textinput) {
this.textinput.focus();
}
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This answer is way too late to do the OP any good, but for others:
You can't do this. In iOS, the operating system, keyboards simply don't/can't work this way. iOS never shows a keyboard without an active text input focus, and there is no way for even a native iOS app to override this OS-level behavior. The OS itself prevents this from happening.
