Pasting images into TextInput should not be this hard — Expo blog

A React Native developer recounts building expo-paste-input, a native Expo module that adds image, GIF, and sticker paste support to the standard TextInput component. After Mattermost's react-native-paste-input broke under React Native's New Architecture, the author chose to wrap the existing TextInput rather than build a custom editor, inspired by Fernando Rojo's write-up on v0's paste handling. The piece walks through iOS clipboard privacy prompts, Android's OnReceiveContentListener and fragmented paste paths, GIF and transparent PNG handling, and iOS 18 sticker support via NSAdaptiveImageGlyph, ending with the module's open-sourcing and outreach to the Bluesky team.

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