_reactNative.Keyboard.removeListener is not a function

Hi! 👋

Firstly, thanks for your work on this project! 🙂

Today I used patch-package to patch react-native-gifted-chat@0.16.3 for the project I’m working on.

Here is the diff that solved my problem:

diff --git a/node_modules/react-native-gifted-chat/lib/MessageContainer.js b/node_modules/react-native-gifted-chat/lib/MessageContainer.js
index 193772a..e26443e 100644
--- a/node_modules/react-native-gifted-chat/lib/MessageContainer.js
+++ b/node_modules/react-native-gifted-chat/lib/MessageContainer.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
 import React from 'react';
-import { FlatList, View, StyleSheet, Keyboard, TouchableOpacity, Text, Platform, } from 'react-native';
+import { FlatList, View, StyleSheet, Keyboard, TouchableOpacity, Text, Platform } from 'react-native';
 import LoadEarlier from './LoadEarlier';
 import Message from './Message';
 import Color from './Color';
@@ -55,18 +55,26 @@ export default class MessageContainer extends React.PureComponent {
         this.attachKeyboardListeners = () => {
             const { invertibleScrollViewProps: invertibleProps } = this.props;
             if (invertibleProps) {
-                Keyboard.addListener('keyboardWillShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillShow);
-                Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidShow);
-                Keyboard.addListener('keyboardWillHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillHide);
-                Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidHide);
+                //Keyboard.addListener('keyboardWillShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillShow);
+                //Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidShow);
+                //Keyboard.addListener('keyboardWillHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillHide);
+                //Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidHide);
+                this.willShowSub = Keyboard.addListener('keyboardWillShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillShow);
+                this.didShowSub = Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidShow);
+                this.willHideSub = Keyboard.addListener('keyboardWillHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillHide);
+                this.didHideSub = Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidHide);
             }
         };
         this.detachKeyboardListeners = () => {
             const { invertibleScrollViewProps: invertibleProps } = this.props;
-            Keyboard.removeListener('keyboardWillShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillShow);
-            Keyboard.removeListener('keyboardDidShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidShow);
-            Keyboard.removeListener('keyboardWillHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillHide);
-            Keyboard.removeListener('keyboardDidHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidHide);
+            //Keyboard.removeListener('keyboardWillShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillShow);
+            //Keyboard.removeListener('keyboardDidShow', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidShow);
+            //Keyboard.removeListener('keyboardWillHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardWillHide);
+            //Keyboard.removeListener('keyboardDidHide', invertibleProps.onKeyboardDidHide);
+            this.willShowSub?.remove();
+            this.didShowSub?.remove();
+            this.willHideSub?.remove();
+            this.didHideSub?.remove();
         };
         this.renderTypingIndicator = () => {
             if (Platform.OS === 'web') {

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[teamzz111]

May you create a PR with these changes?

[ZainabShakeel]

Update MessageContainer.js with patch-package (install patch-package before) step 1 – vim node_modules/react-native-gifted-chat/lib/MessageContainer.js (open file with vim filename . Type i to switch into insert mode so that you can start editing the file. Enter or modify the text with your file. Once you’re done, press the escape key Esc to get out of insert mode and back to command mode. Type :wq to save and exit your file.

step 2 npx patch-package react-native-gifted-chat

run the app it will work fine