React Native meets smooth keyboard animations

Many flagship applications that are written natively (such as Telegram, Instagram, etc.) use the full power of platform-specific native APIs (iOS, Android) to make transitions between opening/closing the keyboard animated and smooth.

Unfortunately, in react-native this aspect was given little attention and all react-native applications were suffering because of that - animations were rough, you couldn't write cross-platform code because some keyboard events were not available, etc. But with the advent of this library, everything changes... 😎

The purpose of this library was utilizing all power of native API and at the same time provide a universal way in react-native to deal with it (allowing to use some platforms advanced technics if needed). Thus this library allows you to track each keyboard frame movement, and create corresponding reactions (move elements accordingly).

The first release of this library brings missing keyboardWillShow/keyboardWillHide events on Android making events module fully cross-platform as well as adding a way to use Animated.Value for managing keyboard frames.

In further releases the API will be enhanced:

• support will be added for interactive keyboard dismissing (on Android)
• the library will be rewritten to new Fabric architecture
• maybe some components, such as KeyboardAvoidingView/KeyboardAwareScrollView will be available here with better performance and animations.

Stay tuned! 😊