Prevent keyboard dismiss. React native

Question

How to keep keyboard opened when i have TextInput and Touchable near input that sends message. So i want to send message without double tap on touchable. First to hide keyboard, second to send message. How to do that?

Answer 1

Use keyboardShouldPersistTaps to handle this.

Example:-

<ScrollView
        keyboardDismissMode="on-drag"
        keyboardShouldPersistTaps={'always'} >
</ScrollView>

Deprecated Properties:-

false, deprecated, use 'never' instead

true, deprecated, use 'always' instead

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