keyboardHeight in UnistylesRuntime

[bryanprimus]

currently i'm using this custom hook to get keyboardHeight

import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
import { Keyboard, Platform } from 'react-native';

export const useKeyboardHeight = () => {
  const [keyboardHeight, setKeyboardHeight] = useState(0);
  useEffect(() => {
    const keyboardDidShowListener = Keyboard.addListener(
      Platform.OS === 'ios' ? 'keyboardWillShow' : 'keyboardDidShow',
      (event) => {
        setKeyboardHeight(event.endCoordinates.height);
      },
    );
    const keyboardDidHideListener = Keyboard.addListener(
      Platform.OS === 'ios' ? 'keyboardWillHide' : 'keyboardDidHide',
      () => {
        setKeyboardHeight(0);
      },
    );
    return () => {
      keyboardDidShowListener.remove();
      keyboardDidHideListener.remove();
    };
  }, []);

  return keyboardHeight;
};

it would be nice if we can access this directly inside UnistylesRuntime
like this

import { UnistylesRuntime } from 'react-native-unistyles';
UnistylesRuntime.keyboardHeight 

or

import { UnistylesRuntime } from 'react-native-unistyles';
UnistylesRuntime.keyboard.height

[jpudysz]

Hey! 👋

UnistylesRuntime is not capable of sending events, you wouldn't get updates, just a current value at the time you read it.

With that in mind I don't see any benefit of exposing it. React Native hook can do that. You can also use hook from Reanimated to perform some animations.

[rikur]

I recommend https://kirillzyusko.github.io/react-native-keyboard-controller/ and its hooks (has keyboardWillShow for iOS and Android).