React Native How to prevent keyboard from dismissing on text submit?

Question

I want to be able to hit the enter button on the keyboard, keep focus on the TextInput, and keep the keyboard open. How can this be done?

The answers about ScrollView implmentation refer to touching a button outside of the TextInput as opposed to actually hitting the return key on the keyboard.

Answer 1

The way to do this on a TextInput is to set blurOnSubmit={false} and then use onSubmitEditing as the submit handler instead of onEndEditing.

  onTextChange(input) {
    this.setState({ value: input })
  }

  submitValue() {
    // Do things with the value 
    ...
    // Then reset it so the TextInput can be reused
    this.setState({ value: '' })
  }

    <TextInput
  blurOnSubmit={false}
  style={styles.inputBox}
  onChangeText={input => this.onTextChange(input)}
  onSubmitEditing={() => this.submitValue(this.state.value)}
  value={this.state.value}
   />

On pressing of the return key this.setState({ value: '' }) to clear the text from the TextInput.