Question: tvOS: When using tvos remote, UISearchController keyboard events are not propagated to UISearchBar's Text Input Field about react-native-tvos

[douglowder]

React does intercept remote events, in RCTTVRemoteHandler.m. You might need to modify that file in order to allow your search controller to get the events.

[douglowder]

@keshavkaul were you able to resolve this issue?

[keshavkaul]

@dlowder-salesforce No, I didn't find time to resolve this, but I implemented a quick fix to natively present a search controller as a modal instead of embedding the controller in react native view

[hscheidl]

I'm facing the same issue, but I can't figure out how to avoid RCTTVRemoteHandler.m from intercepting remote events just for the search controller. Has anybody integrated successfully the search bar? Is there a work-around besides showing it as a modal?

[zsoltbokor]

Hi, we also have UISearchController used in our project and had issues mostly with remote with touch.
Sometimes touch event (gestures) were not propagated to the keyboard.
After dubugging it found out that there is a RCTTouchHandler registered in React/Base/RCTRootContentView.m so basically 2 gesture handlers were registered and the one useful for mobiles was preventing gesture handling.
RCTTouchHandler has internally a function canBePreventedByGestureRecognizer which was returning true in our case.

The RCTTVRemoteHandler .m already has gesture handler implementation so in case of RCTRootContentView we just skip to register the RCTTouchHandler if TV device.

[douglowder]

@zsoltbokor if you are using recent RNTV (0.72 latest, or 0.73), the RCTTouchHandler has been removed for Apple TV, see #601 .