React Native By Example

TextInput

The second goal for building out an MVP was as follows:

• Our users should be able to input their own tasks using a text field and the native keyboard

To successfully create this input, we have to break down the problem into some necessary requirements:

• We need to have an input field that will spring up our keyboard to type with
• The keyboard should hide itself when we tap outside of it
• When we successfully add a task, it needs to be added to dataSource in TasksList, which is stored in its state
• The list of tasks needs to be stored locally in the application so that a state reset doesn't delete the entire list of tasks we've created
• There're also a couple of forks in the road we should address:
  • What happens when the user hits ...