Make TouchableOpacity not highlight element when starting to scroll [React Native]

Question

TouchableOpacity makes things touchable, or as React Native says:

A wrapper for making views respond properly to touches.

But using it inside a ScrollView or ListView results in highlighting when we (or at least I) do not want that.

These are three steps involved in scrolling down a ListView filled with elements:

• Touch an element
• Move finger up
• Release finger

Touching the element immediately results in a highlight animation. But in this case, we just want to scroll. We do not want to do anything with that element, be it highlighting or opening a detail view etc.

This does not happen all the time but most of the times on my Android device.

What is a proper way of handling this?

Answer 1

A scroll gesture should cancel the TouchableOpacity touch responder, but if you think the TouchableOpacity highlight is triggered to early, you can try tweaking the delayPressIn property.

Answer 2

You can use delayPressIn={1000}, which will delay the animation until you press for 1 second.

delayPressIn property of <TouchableOpacity> delay in ms, from the start of the touch, before onPressIn is called.

Example to use :

<FlatList
  horizontal
  contentContainerStyle={{ paddingRight: 16 }}   // this set the padding to last item
  showsHorizontalScrollIndicator={false}         // hide the scroller
  data={results}
  keyExtractor={(result) => result.data.id}
  renderItem={({ item }) => {
    return (
      <TouchableOpacity
        delayPressIn={1000}         // delay animation for 1 second
        onPress={() => navigation.navigate('ResultsShow')}
      >
        <ResultsDetail result={item.data} />
      </TouchableOpacity>
    );
  }}
/>;

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