Keyboard doesn't show up when use someRef.current.focus()

Hey! When use

someRef.current.focus()

nothing happends but if use

setTimeout(() => someRef.current.focus(), 0)

I don’t think that this a good idea It is a bug?

{
  "dependencies": {
    "@react-native-community/masked-view": "^0.1.9",
    "@react-navigation/native": "^5.1.5",
    "@react-navigation/stack": "^5.2.10",
    "@types/react-navigation": "^3.4.0",
    "react": "16.11.0",
    "react-native": "0.62.2",
    "react-native-screens": "^2.4.0",
  },
}

[KatiRasanen]

Also noticing the same issue with RN 0.64.1.

The above hack setTimeout(() => someRef.current.focus(), 0) seems to work.

[janicduplessis]

This should be fixed in react-native 0.63 (currently in RC). See https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/6adba409e6256fd2dcc27a4272edcedae89927af, https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/055a41b081c5bc9535b071d9b4b7488b92e71803

Edit: In this case you’d need to use the autoFocus prop on TextInput instead of focusing from JS with a ref.