Type error using useRef hook with TextInput

When i use the hook useRef<TextInput>(null) this gives me this type error 'TextInput' refers to a value, but is being used as a type here. And the same when i use React.forwardRef<TextInput, MyProps>. This does’t happend with the RN TextInput

[lafiosca]

I have not yet verified this solution by testing the app, but it seems to me that the ref attribute is referring to the React Native TextInput type rather than the react-native-paper type. Specifically, this clears up the ts errors for me:

import { TextInput as RNTextInput } from 'react-native';
import { TextInput } from 'react-native-paper';

const fieldRef = useRef<RNTextInput>(null);

const focusField = useCallback(
	() => {
		fieldRef.current?.focus();
	},
	[],
);

<TextInput
	ref={fieldRef}
	[...]
>

Again, this is hot off the presses from my code, in the middle of a large refactor, and I’m not able to verify the functionality yet.

[Alain00]

No @sangdth, I just avoid it using the any type