Move Keyboard focus

[consuelo-sanna]

Good morning,
I'm trying to leverage this library to move the keyboard focus, my goal is to being able to move it even when the screen reader is off, for both iOS and Android
Do you know if it could be achieved through this library? I'm trying with

KeyboardExtendedModule.setKeyboardFocus(ref)

but it does not seem to be working; I've read that there's no iOS support for managing the keyboard only focus, so I'm unsure if I'm doing something wrong or it can't be achieved

Any help/suggestion is appreciated, thank you

[ArturKalach]

Hello @consuelo-sanna,

The current way to manage focus is:

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { Button } from 'react-native';
import {
  BaseKeyboardView,
  type KeyboardFocus,
} from 'react-native-external-keyboard';

export const Example = () => {
  const ref = useRef<KeyboardFocus>(null);
  const action = () => {
    ref.current?.focus();
  };

  return (
    <BaseKeyboardView ref={ref}>
      <Button title="Target" />
    </BaseKeyboardView>
  );
};

You can use BaseKeyboardView or explore the features of KeyboardFocusView and withKeyboardFocus.

Unfortunately, focus control via the module KeyboardExtendedModule.setKeyboardFocus had some limitations and has been deprecated and removed. While there are ideas about how to implement setKeyboardFocus properly with the module, it is not currently in my plans.

Regards,
Artur Kalach

[ArturKalach]

Hello @consuelo-sanna,
Recently, I added setKeyboardFocus to the https://github.com/ArturKalach/react-native-a11y repository, which you can use if you need a module API. However, I would say that KeyboardFocusView and withKeyboardFocus are more preferable options.