Android: Keyboard gets dismissed when writing and pressing enter to create a new block

[mzorz]

When typing on a paragraph or Title block and tapping Enter to create a new block, the soft keyboard is dismissed, thus interrupting the writing flow.

[daniloercoli]

I've investigated this issue going back in git history, and found out that the culprit is this PR here: #341

The problem lays in the GB side PR WordPress/gutenberg#12765
If you comment the code added in the PR above, the keyboard is not dismissed anymore on Enter.key pressed event, of course, you will re-introduce the issue the original pr fixed.

Putting some log in the code also shown that the calls are made correctly, first the blur method of the old field is called, (that in turn executes TextInputState.blurTextInput(ReactNative.findNodeHandle(this));), then the call to focus on the new field is made and TextInputState.focusTextInput(ReactNative.findNodeHandle(this)); executed.

[mzorz]

Thanks for digging into it @daniloercoli ! I was wondering maybe we could put a flag somewhere, so to prevent Blur from being called if the flag is set, i.e. for example when we know we are doing a block split, we set the flag on, once the split ends, we set the flag off. This would probably require 2 actions on the redux store. IDK, just a thought.