Unfocus a TextInput in React Native

Question

I\'m building an Android app with React Native.

How can you force a TextInput to \"unFocus\", meaning the cursor is blinking inside the text field. The

Answer 1

I managed to solve this with this.ref reference. First, you assign to the TextInput a ref, like this:

Then, you call the blur() method to this.refs.myInput from a function

 blurTextInput(){
    this.refs.myInput.blur()
 }