React-native: when submitting a text input in android, the word suggestions are not cleared
I have an Android app built with React native. The app has a TextInput and a submit button. When typing in the text input, the default keyboard starts suggesting words (not sure how this feature is called - auto complete or predictive text). When clicking submit, the data is stored and the TextInput is cleared via the "clear()" method of the TextInput. For example: this.refs.textInput.clear(); For some reason, the "predictive text" is not cleared after the "clear()" method is called. As a result, when the user start typing again, the predictive text continues from where it stopped and the user