Update: I've submitted a PR for this to the react-native-community/hooks repository. https://github.com/react-native-community/hooks/pull/216.
DEMO: Here's a Snack that you can use on your phone to show releasing the keyboard/

One of the very first problems I had to solve while learning React Native was how to dismiss a keyboard when using a standard View component (vs a ScrollView).

I wrote about this solution using React classes. Fortunately, now with hooks, the solution is much more elegant and can be easily shared across components. Here's what the hook looks like:

import { Keyboard, Platform } from "react-native";

type Returns = {
  shouldSetResponse: () => boolean;
  onRelease: () => void;
};

export function useKeyboardRelease(): Returns {
  const shouldSetResponse = () => (Platform.OS === 'web' ? false : true);
  const onRelease = () => Keyboard.dismiss();

  return { shouldSetResponse, onRelease };
}

Feel free to change the name 🤣.

Now, to use the hook in a component, do this:

import { useKeyboardRelease } from "src/hooks/useManageKeyboardRelease";

const { onRelease, shouldSetResponse } = useKeyboardRelease();

<View
  onResponderRelease={onRelease}
  onStartShouldSetResponder={shouldSetResponse}
>
...
</View>

After that, any clicks on your view will magically close the keyboard ⌨️!