Feature Request: setaddressText using ref should trigger search

Describe the bug

I am saving recently searched terms in my state and when user clicks on one of the recent searches, I do this.autoCompleteRef.setAddressText(this.state.recentSearch). This updates the text input value but the search is not triggered. I have to press one more key to see the search results from place autocomplete api

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<GooglePlacesAutocomplete
            ref={comp => (this.autoCompleteRef = comp)}
            placeholder="Search"
            styles={{textInput: {borderBottomColor: "#4a4a4a", borderBottomWidth: 1, backgroundColor: 'transparent'}}}
            onPress={(data, details = null) => {
              // 'details' is provided when fetchDetails = true
              console.log(data);
              console.log(details);
            }}
            query={{
              key: 'key',
              language: 'en',
              components: 'country:in',
            }}
            currentLocation={true}
            currentLocationLabel="Use your current location"
            nearbyPlacesAPI="GoogleReverseGeocoding"
            textInputProps={{onBlur: () => {}}}
            fetchDetails //details.geometry.location - gives lat, lng
          />
         handleRecentLocationClick = (desc) => {
         this.autoCompleteRef.setAddressText(desc)
         this.autoCompleteRef.focus()
}

Please remember to remove you google API key from the code you provide here

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• Library Version: [e.g. 1.4.2]

• React Native Version: [e.g. 0.62.2]

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• Android

• Web

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[icomad]

For anyone still having trouble with this I managed to make it work. I’m on version 2.4.1 and you need to change a line in GooglePlacesAutocomplete.js inside react-native-google-places-autocomplete in node_modules. The problem seems to be that the useEffect at line 145 that is in charge of populating the results list runs before the local state variable stateText is updated from the setAddressText method. If you change line 161 from setStateText(address) to _handleChangeText(address) it should work.

[bell-steven]

Ok. Can you try using version 2.1.1. There were some changes in v2.1.0 that may have addressed the issue.