title: TextInput Typed Text not appearing on android
body: <p>I'm new to react-native and am trying to make an app for both android and iOS at the same time.</p>
  
  <p>Currently, I have a login screen set up, but both the typed text and placeholder text used within textInput is not showing in the app for android (works fine for iPhone).</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code snippet and style sheet:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    'use strict';
  import React, { Component } from 'react'
  var Dimensions = require('Dimensions');
  var windowSize = Dimensions.get('window');
  
  import {
    AppRegistry,
    StyleSheet,
    View,
    Text,
    TextInput,
    Image
  } from 'react-native';
  
  class LoginPage extends Component {
    constructor() {
      super()
      this.state = {
          username: '',
          password: ''
      }
    }
    render() {
      return (
          &lt;View style={styles.container}&gt;
              &lt;Image style={styles.bg} source={require('./Resources/orangebackground.png')} /&gt;
              &lt;View style={styles.header}&gt;
                  &lt;Image source={require('./Resources/logo.png')} /&gt;
              &lt;/View&gt;
              &lt;View style={styles.inputs}&gt;
                  &lt;View style={styles.inputContainer}&gt;
                      &lt;Image style={styles.inputUsername} source={require('./Resources/un.png')}/&gt;
                      &lt;TextInput 
                          style={[styles.input, styles.whiteFont]}
                          underlineColorAndroid={'white'}
                          placeholder='Username'
                          placeholderTextColor="white"
                          //value={this.state.username}
                      /&gt;
                  &lt;/View&gt;
                  &lt;View style={styles.inputContainer}&gt;
                      &lt;Image style={styles.inputPassword} source={require('./Resources/pw.png')}/&gt;
                      &lt;TextInput
                          password={true}
                          style={[styles.input, styles.whiteFont]}
                          placeholder="Password"
                          placeholderTextColor="#FFF"
                          underlineColorAndroid={'transparent'}
                          //value={this.state.password}
                      /&gt;
                  &lt;/View&gt;
                  &lt;View style={styles.forgotContainer}&gt;
                      &lt;Text style={styles.greyFont}&gt;Forgot Password&lt;/Text&gt;
                  &lt;/View&gt;
              &lt;/View&gt;
              &lt;View style={styles.signin}&gt;
                  &lt;Text style={styles.whiteFont}&gt;Sign In&lt;/Text&gt;
              &lt;/View&gt;
              &lt;View style={styles.signup}&gt;
                  &lt;Text style={styles.greyFont}&gt;Don't have an account?&lt;Text style={styles.whiteFont}&gt;  Sign Up&lt;/Text&gt;&lt;/Text&gt;
              &lt;/View&gt;
          &lt;/View&gt;
      );
    }
  }
  
  var styles = StyleSheet.create({
      container: {
        flexDirection: 'column',
        flex: 1,
        backgroundColor: 'transparent'
      },
      bg: {
          position: 'absolute',
          left: 0,
          top: 0,
          width: windowSize.width,
          height: windowSize.height
      },
      header: {
          justifyContent: 'center',
          alignItems: 'center',
          flex: .5,
          backgroundColor: 'transparent'
      },
      mark: {
          width: 150,
          height: 150
      },
      signin: {
          backgroundColor: '#FF3366',
          padding: 20,
          alignItems: 'center'
      },
      signup: {
        justifyContent: 'center',
        alignItems: 'center',
        flex: .15
      },
      inputs: {
          marginTop: 10,
          marginBottom: 10,
          flex: .25
      },
      inputPassword: {
          marginLeft: 15,
          width: 20,
          height: 21
      },
      inputUsername: {
        marginLeft: 15,
        width: 20,
        height: 20
      },
      inputContainer: {
          padding: 10,
          borderWidth: 1,
          borderBottomColor: '#CCC',
          borderColor: 'transparent'
      },
      input: {
          position: 'absolute',
          left: 61,
          top: 12,
          right: 0,
          height: 20,
          fontSize: 14
      },
      forgotContainer: {
        alignItems: 'flex-end',
        padding: 15,
      },
      greyFont: {
        color: '#D8D8D8'
      },
      whiteFont: {
        color: '#FFF'
      }
  })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated. Thank you.</p>