Fix dead presses in "never" mode when the keyboard belongs to a native field

[m-bert]

Description

With a Gesture Handler ScrollView in the default (never) keyboardShouldPersistTaps mode, a keyboard opened by a native field (e.g. a native-stack headerSearchBarOptions search bar) made every RNGH Pressable/Touchable inside dead, with no way to dismiss the keyboard by tapping. The keyboard-dismissing tap drop (#992) checks only keyboard visibility, but the dismissal blurs TextInput.State.currentlyFocusedInput(), which is null for native fields - the tap was consumed while nothing could be dismissed.

Now the tap is dropped only when an RN TextInput is focused, mirroring RN ScrollView's _keyboardIsDismissible. Focus is snapshotted when the keyboard shows, since the dismissal blurs the input at touch-down, before the press events are checked; a live check is OR-ed in for focus moving to an RN input while the keyboard is already up. With a native-field keyboard, presses now behave like RN's Pressable: they fire and the keyboard stays.

Test plan

• yarn test — added cases: no drop when the keyboard is up without a focused RN input; the drop verdict survives the input being blurred mid-tap; existing never-drop tests updated to mock a focused input.
• iOS simulator and Android emulator, repro below with RNGH and RN Pressable side by side:
  • search bar active: both fire, keyboard stays (previously the RNGH one was dead)
  • RN TextInput focused: both are dropped and the tap dismisses the keyboard (BaseButton does not seem to respect TouchableWithoutFeedback #992 behavior unchanged)

Repro

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { Pressable as RNPressable, StyleSheet, Text, TextInput, View } from 'react-native';
import { NavigationContainer, NavigationIndependentTree } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createNativeStackNavigator } from '@react-navigation/native-stack';
import { Pressable, ScrollView } from 'react-native-gesture-handler';

const ROUTES = ['12', '17', '25', '42', '58', '73', '81', '99'];

function RoutesScreen() {
  const [pressCount, setPressCount] = useState(0);
  const [lastPressed, setLastPressed] = useState<string | null>(null);

  const press = (label: string) => () => {
    setPressCount((c) => c + 1);
    setLastPressed(label);
  };

  return (
    <ScrollView contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior="automatic">
      <TextInput placeholder="RN TextInput (control)" style={styles.input} />
      <Text style={styles.status}>
        {`onPress count: ${pressCount}` + (lastPressed ? ` (last: ${lastPressed})` : '')}
      </Text>
      {ROUTES.map((route) => (
        <View key={route} style={styles.routeRow}>
          <Pressable style={styles.row} onPress={press(`GH ${route}`)}>
            <Text>{`GH ${route}`}</Text>
          </Pressable>
          <RNPressable style={styles.row} onPress={press(`RN ${route}`)}>
            <Text>{`RN ${route}`}</Text>
          </RNPressable>
        </View>
      ))}
    </ScrollView>
  );
}

const Stack = createNativeStackNavigator();

export default function Example() {
  return (
    <NavigationIndependentTree>
      <NavigationContainer>
        <Stack.Navigator>
          <Stack.Screen
            name="Routes"
            component={RoutesScreen}
            options={{
              headerSearchBarOptions: { placeholder: 'Search routes', hideWhenScrolling: false },
            }}
          />
        </Stack.Navigator>
      </NavigationContainer>
    </NavigationIndependentTree>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  status: { fontSize: 16, fontWeight: 'bold', padding: 16 },
  input: { borderColor: '#ccd', borderRadius: 8, borderWidth: 1, margin: 16, padding: 12 },
  routeRow: { flexDirection: 'row', gap: 8, marginHorizontal: 16, marginVertical: 4 },
  row: { backgroundColor: '#eef', borderRadius: 8, flex: 1, padding: 16 },
});

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved keyboard dismissal behavior during touch interactions.
  • Prevented touchable press callbacks when a dismissal tap is consumed.
  • Preserved dismissal decisions after an input loses focus.
  • Avoided suppressing interactions when the keyboard belongs exclusively to a native text field.

Walkthrough

The change tracks whether a visible keyboard belongs to a React Native TextInput. Keyboard-dismissal detection uses current or show-time focus, with tests covering blurred inputs, native-only fields, and touchable press events.

Changes

Keyboard dismissal focus tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Focus-aware keyboard dismissal packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/scrollViewInterop.ts	The interop records React Native TextInput focus when the keyboard appears. Dismissal taps require a visible keyboard associated with a currently or previously focused React Native input.
Keyboard dismissal regression coverage packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/__tests__/api_v3.test.tsx	Tests cover retained dismissal decisions, native-only keyboard fields, and touchables that blur the input before press events.

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This is a localized keyboard-tap behavior fix with corresponding tests; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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Pull request overview

This PR fixes an interaction bug in RNGH v3 ScrollView interop where keyboardShouldPersistTaps="never" could make RNGH Pressable/Touchable children permanently unresponsive when the visible keyboard was owned by a native text field (i.e., no focused RN TextInput exists to blur/dismiss). The change narrows “keyboard-dismissing tap” detection to cases where an RN TextInput is/was focused, aligning the behavior more closely with React Native’s ScrollView dismissibility rules.

Changes:

• Update isKeyboardDismissingTap to drop taps only when the keyboard is visible and an RN TextInput is (or was at show-time) focused.
• Snapshot RN TextInput focus state at keyboard show-time to preserve the “drop” verdict even if the input is blurred at touch-down.
• Extend Jest coverage for the new behavior and adjust existing never-mode tests to mock focused input appropriately.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/scrollViewInterop.ts	Tracks whether the keyboard is associated with an RN TextInput and uses that to decide when to drop taps in never mode.
packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/__tests__/api_v3.test.tsx	Updates and adds tests to validate the refined keyboard-dismissing-tap logic.

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