Summary:
RCTShadowText currently explicitly defaults to black text color:
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/d46ac11/Libraries/Text/RCTShadowText.m#L204
However, the UITextView used by RCTTextInput doesn't explicitly default to black text color.
This causes issues when RCTTextInput is in rich text editing mode (i.e. when the <TextInput> element uses child <Text> nodes to provide extra styling info) and the client doesn't provide us with any explicit color info. In this case, the following series of badness occurs:
1. -[UITextView attributedText] will return an attributed string without the NSColor property set.
2. -[RCTShadowText attributedString] will return an attributed string with NSColor equal to blackColor.
3. The `[_textView.attributedText isEqualToAttributedString:_pendingAttributedText]` check in -performPendingTextUpdate will fail and causes -[UITextView setText:] to be called.
4. -setText: clears the marked text range in the text view, which breaks multi-character autocomplete (e.g. QWERTY input methods for CJK languages).
The easiest fix for now is to just make sure RCTUITextView and RCTShadowText default to the same text color.
Reviewed By: nicklockwood
Differential Revision: D3368726
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