closeOnHardwareBackPress not working (Android back button keeps closing alert)

I’m on a Samsung Galaxy S6 with Android 7.

        <AwesomeAlert
            show={!assistanceConfirmed}
            showProgress
            title="Esperando confirmación de asistencia"
            closeOnHardwareBackPress={false}
            closeOnTouchOutside={false}
            overlayStyle={styles.overlay}
          />

Am I missing something?

[smerkousdavid]

The core issue has been fixed with new update, but the back button doesn’t allow me to use the previous/custom BackHandlers that I initially defined. After looking at your code and the documentation for BackHandlers I realized that your BackHandler returns true even if it’s not handling the springHide, which causes other listeners to break.

  _handleHwBackEvent = () => {
    const { closeOnHardwareBackPress } = this.props;
    if (this.state.showSelf && closeOnHardwareBackPress) {
      this._springHide();
      return true;
    } else if (!closeOnHardwareBackPress && this.state.showSelf) {
      return true;
    }

    return false;
  };

According to the docs https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/backhandler. The listeners are registered and called in reverse order and it stops when the first function returns true. This means you still have a listener active and returning true before it hits listeners that are defined before AwesomeAlert’s.

You could just change

    } else if (!closeOnHardwareBackPress && this.state.showSelf) {
      return true;
    }

to

    } else if (!closeOnHardwareBackPress && this.state.showSelf) {
      return false;
    }

I think you designed it like this so that it doesn’t exit the app when the Alert is the only registered hardware back event listener. I see another solution being wrapping the event listener in a closeHardwareBackPress condition if(this.props.closeOnHardwareBackPress) HwBackHandler.addEventListener(HW_BACK_EVENT, this._handleHwBackEvent);.

I hope this helps 👍

Thanks for the awesome library @rishabhbhatia

[rishabhbhatia]

Ok @jjercx , I’ll fix it tomorrow