Android - onActivityCreated never called on detached project

I’m trying to use https://github.com/wix/react-native-keyboard-input in my detached android (exp detach) project and it’s not working but the project that created by $ react-native init does. So I diged into the android project and found out that the onActivityCreated method of Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks never called. Here the code:

public class KeyboardInputPackage implements ReactPackage {
   public KeyboardInputPackage(Application application) {
     application.registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(new Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks() {
            @Override
            public void onActivityCreated(Activity activity, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                sCurrentActivity = activity; // never trigger
            }

            @Override
            public void onActivityStarted(Activity activity) {
                sCurrentActivity = activity; // trigger when I turn off the screen then turn on again
            }

            .....
     })
   }
}

The onActivityCreated never trigger make the module entirely not working. How can I fix it?

[khacanh]

The problem is that in Expo app (even after detaching)

public class MainActivity extends ExponentActivity {
  ...
}

ExponentActivity extends from ReactNativeActivity, which is something defined by Expo SDK.

Meanwhile, apps created with react-native init has

public class MainActivity extends ReactActivity {
  ...
}

The way ReactNativeActivity handles activity events are very different from ReactActivity. It will not call the methods defined and passed in addActivityEventListener

That means, the official way to create call back in android bridge, as it is documented here https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-android.html, will no longer work.

I think this is a big issue as all of the bridge packages that needs callback will not work. Would be great if the author can help address this.

Thanks.

[jesseruder]

This should be fixed in SDK 24!