react-native/ReactAndroid
Vishwesh Jainkuniya 09b43e479e textinput: Maintain cursor position when secureTextEntry toggles.
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On current [master](8235a49a33), text input cursor resets to start when `secureTextEntry` prop toggles on Android. This motivate me to maintain position when `secureTextEntry ` prop toggles for better user experience.

On current [master](8235a49a33)
![ezgif com-video-to-gif-3](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18511177/35776882-bdc3b182-09ca-11e8-8f4e-218fae0a24a1.gif)

On this PR
![ezgif com-video-to-gif-4](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18511177/35776883-be082d94-09ca-11e8-9424-6164110bdf03.gif)

[ANDROID] [BUGFIX] [TextInput] - Fix: cursor positions resets to start on toggling `secureTextEntry` prop.

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Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/17851

Differential Revision: D6925711

Pulled By: hramos

fbshipit-source-id: 6d53ad2dbed2dca20cd21e5b1b0578be13a91aad
2018-02-07 11:03:31 -08:00
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2017-07-12 07:54:09 -07:00

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