Potential issue with Samsung + Grammarly ?

[RobertLiuMTL]

End 2022/Start 2023, we had to deal with an issue happening on Samsung Devices where the App would crash when Samsung Users would enter text (generally long text) in a TextInput.

The issue (now resolved) can be found here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/35590

It looks like the same (?) issue is happening with the MentionInput where the App can crash if the User is mentioning someone ("@user_name") and typing a long text.

Repro steps/configuration:

• Samsung devices with grammarly. (In my case, Samsung S10, Android 12).
• Project is currently on react-native 0.72.4 (latest as of October 9th is 0.72.5)
• Type "@user_name with a long text..." in . Make some mistakes along the way, which will be fixed automatically by Samsung/Grammarly. More complex errors will be underlined.
• Keep typing until the app hangs/lags/crashes.

Workarounds

• turn off autoComplete and autoCorrect for Samsung Users:

  <MentionInput
  {...props}
  autoComplete={isSamsung ? "off" : props.autoComplete}
  autoCorrect={isSamsung ? false : props.autoCorrect}
  />

• Less ideal: Tell the users to disable Grammarly on their phone

• Bad: Tell the users to buy a non-Samsung phone

[dabakovich]

Hey @RobertLiuMTL

Thanks for that detailed feedback, especially for the last two workaround options 😅.

Please try to play with the pre-release third version of the library, before forcing users to buy a non-Samsung phone. It uses a slightly different approach for rendering mentions and allows you to directly use the TextInput component from react-native.

I hope it will help you. If not – please write here and we'll investigate this.