@clerk/expo: Return key adds a new line instead of submitting

[csandman]

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Reproduction

https://github.com/clerk/clerk-expo-quickstart/tree/main/NativeComponentQuickstart (this happens with the quickstart)

Publishable key

Shouldn't matter

Description

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open an Expo app using the native AuthView
2. Fill out email
3. Press enter/return key

Expected behavior:

This should trigger the "Continue" action.

I'd also expect the return key to actually be the "Go" action, similar to the React Native enterKeyHint options: https://reactnative.dev/docs/textinput#enterkeyhint

Actual behavior:

On Android it added a new line to the email input. And because the input is only one line long, it appeared as though the email was just cleared/disappeared. I then continually got the "Identifier is invalid" error toast until I figured out that I still had text in the input. This is actually pretty hard to figure out how to recover from, because even when I restarted the app, the multi-line email was still populated.

On iOS, it just closes the keyboard, which is not nearly as bad, but still not as good as it could be.

Environment

Issue was on an Android 14 device
For the iPhone issue, it was on an iPhone 15 Pro on iOS 26.2

[csandman]

After some further investigation, I realized that this is actually an issue with the core clerk/clerk-android and clerk/clerk-ios packages, as those handle rendering the entire forms directly. I added an issue clerk/clerk-android#670 in the specific package, and can open on in the iOS package as well if requested. I'm mostly focusing on the Android package for now because the experience is significantly worse. I also opened clerk/clerk-android#671 to fix the issue.

[wobsoriano]

Closing this issue as it has been resolved in the latest release of @clerk/expo (ref).

Please upgrade to the latest version and give it another try. If you run into any other bugs, we're always happy to hear about them.

Thanks!