🐛 Android: Cursor jumps to right when clearing centered TextInput

Description

When using a TextInput with textAlign: "center" on Android, clearing the input causes the cursor to move to the right end of the input instead of staying centered.

This does not happen on iOS — iOS behaves correctly.

This issue makes centered numeric or OTP-style inputs feel broken on Android.

Steps to reproduce

1)Render a TextInput with textAlign: "center"
2)Type any value
3)Clear the value (backspace or programmatically)
4)Observe cursor position

`import React, { useState } from "react";
import { View, TextInput, StyleSheet } from "react-native";

export default function App() {
const [value, setValue] = useState("");

return (



);
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
container: {
flex: 1,
justifyContent: "center",
padding: 20,
},
input: {
borderWidth: 1,
height: 48,
fontSize: 18,
textAlign: "center",
},
});
`

React Native Version

0.83.0

Affected Platforms

Runtime - Android

Output of npx @react-native-community/cli info

N/A

Stacktrace or Logs

N/A

MANDATORY Reproducer

https://reactnative.dev/docs/textinput

Screenshots and Videos

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/20586de1-a4fc-40d5-8495-2d6cc29ace5f

Start with the mandatory TextInput reproducer in the React Native documentation and reproduce the behavior on Android with textAlign set to center. Trace the Android TextInput behavior involved in clearing controlled input text. Done means the cursor remains centered after clearing by backspace or programmatically, without changing the correct iOS behavior.