diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/BUCK b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/BUCK
index 9e80b0240b..745cfe2b89 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/BUCK
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/BUCK
@@ -4,13 +4,6 @@ rn_android_library(
     name = "textinput",
     srcs = glob(["*.java"]),
     is_androidx = True,
-    provided_deps = [
-        react_native_dep("third-party/android/androidx:annotation"),
-        react_native_dep("third-party/android/androidx:core"),
-        react_native_dep("third-party/android/androidx:fragment"),
-        react_native_dep("third-party/android/androidx:legacy-support-core-ui"),
-        react_native_dep("third-party/android/androidx:legacy-support-core-utils"),
-    ],
     required_for_source_only_abi = True,
     visibility = [
         "PUBLIC",
@@ -31,4 +24,7 @@ rn_android_library(
         react_native_target("java/com/facebook/react/views/text:text"),
         react_native_target("java/com/facebook/react/views/view:view"),
     ],
+    exported_deps = [
+        react_native_dep("third-party/android/androidx:appcompat"),
+    ],
 )
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
index bf88584801..81b8cb87da 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ import android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityNodeInfo;
 import android.view.inputmethod.EditorInfo;
 import android.view.inputmethod.InputConnection;
 import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
-import android.widget.EditText;
 import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
+import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatEditText;
 import androidx.core.view.AccessibilityDelegateCompat;
 import androidx.core.view.ViewCompat;
 import com.facebook.infer.annotation.Assertions;
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
  * called this explicitly. This is the default behavior on other platforms as well.
  * VisibleForTesting from {@link TextInputEventsTestCase}.
  */
-public class ReactEditText extends EditText {
+public class ReactEditText extends AppCompatEditText {
 
   private final InputMethodManager mInputMethodManager;
   // This flag is set to true when we set the text of the EditText explicitly. In that case, no