Hi John, thanks for this great post! It helped us solve strange issues that continued to occur with keyboards in Android on our React Native app.

3 years later I've updated the code here to a functional component with hooks and removed a few methods which are now deprecated:

https://chrisfrewin.medium.com/a-keyboard-avoiding-view-for-react-native-in-2021-196701ff0608

Hope it's useful for anyone who finds this response!