Is it safe to use ListKeyboardDelegate in custom components?

[timurmaio]

Hi team,

I'm building a custom Select component using react-aria, and I'm relying on ListBox for the list UI. I need to control focus manually (e.g., via aria-activedescendant) and handle keyboard navigation myself.

I came across the ListKeyboardDelegate class, which seems to work well for things like getKeyBelow, getKeyAbove, etc. However, I noticed that it's not part of the public documentation, so I assume it's considered internal.

My question is:
Is it safe to use ListKeyboardDelegate in my own component, or is it likely to break in a future release?
I'm trying to stick as closely as possible to internal patterns to avoid reimplementing keyboard logic, but I also want to avoid relying on unstable APIs.

Thanks in advance!

[devongovett]

It is shown in some public documentation examples so we do consider it a stable API.

need to control focus manually (e.g., via aria-activedescendant) and handle keyboard navigation myself.

Could you describe more about your use-case? Autocomplete is potentially related as it also uses virtual focus.