2 Answers

• Accepted Answer

  Set this to the textarea:

  suppressReturn:false
  

• Hi Matt

  Using textarea.js as a starting point, I commented out some of the createTextArea properties to enable the return key to function the way you intend (ie create a new line):

  var ta1 = Titanium.UI.createTextArea({
      value:'I am a textarea',
      height:70,
      width:300,
      top:60,
      font:{fontSize:20,fontFamily:'Marker Felt', fontWeight:'bold'},
      color:'#888',
      textAlign:'left',
  //    appearance:Titanium.UI.KEYBOARD_APPEARANCE_ALERT,    
  //    keyboardType:Titanium.UI.KEYBOARD_NUMBERS_PUNCTUATION,
  //    returnKeyType:Titanium.UI.RETURNKEY_EMERGENCY_CALL,
      borderWidth:2,
      borderColor:'#bbb',
      borderRadius:5,
      suppressReturn:false
  });
  

  Hope this helps.