@mattermost/react-native-paste-input

React Native TextInput component have functionality to capture text input from a user by using the soft and hardware keyboards but lacks the ability to restrict copy & paste options as well as allwing pasting different files formats copied from other apps, like images & videos from the Photos gallery app.

PasteInput is a TextInput replacement that solves this issues.

Installation

npm i --save-exact @mattermost/react-native-paste-input

Demo

Android	iOS

Usage

import React, { useRef } from 'react';
import PasteInput, { PastedFile, PasteInputRef } from "@mattermost/react-native-paste-input";

const YourTextInput = () => {
    const inputRef = useRef<PasteInputRef>(null);

    const onPaste = (
        error: string | null | undefined,
        files: Array<PastedFile>
    ) => {
        console.log('ERROR', error);
        console.log('PASTED FILES', files);
    };

    return (
        <PasteInput
            ref={inputRef}
            disableCopyPaste={false}
            onPaste={onPaste}
            multiline={true}
            blurOnSubmit={false}
            underlineColorAndroid="transparent"
            keyboardType="default"
            disableFullscreenUI={true}
            textContentType="none"
            autoCompleteType="off"
        />
    );
}

Properties

All properties of the TextInput component plus:

disableCopyPaste: boolean

Indicates if the menu items for cut, copy, paste and share should not be present in the context menu.

onPaste: (error, files) => void

Callback that is called when the pasting files into the text input. Note: On Android this callback is also called when selecting and image / gif from the soft keyboard.

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT