How do I get the key pressed in React Native (other than having the user click a text box)? onKeyPress and onKeyDown gives a type error when being added to the <View>
component.
I have also seen this answer, but it requires a 3rd party package. I imagine React Native apps support keyboard input for accessibility purposes.
The following code does not work
import { View } from 'react-native'
<View onKeyDown={handleKeyDown}>my app</View>
This gives the following error:
Property 'onKeyDown' does not exist on type 'IntrinsicAttributes & InterfaceViewProps & RefAttributes<unknown>'
window.addEventListener('keydown')
also does not work for android or IOS which makes sense given there is no browser.
EDIT I am trying to listen for ANY keyboard input from the user at any time when using the app. Ex: User presses 'f' randomly when using the app to trigger a blind-friendly feature, without clicking or seeing anything.