React Native: View onPress does not work

Question

You can use TouchableOpacity for onPress event. View doesn't provide onPress prop.

<TouchableOpacity style={{backgroundColor: "red", padding: 20}} onPress={()=> {
    console.log('does not work');
    }
  }>
  <Text>X</Text>
</TouchableOpacity>

You can wrap the view with a TouchableWithoutFeedback and then use onPress and friends like usual. Also you can still block pointerEvents by setting the attribute on on the child view, it even blocks pointer events on the parent TouchableWithoutFeedback, its interesting, this was my need on Android, I didn't test on iOS:

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/touchablewithoutfeedback.html

<TouchableWithoutFeedback onPressIn={this.closeDrawer}>
    <Animated.View style={[styles.drawerBackground, styleBackground]} pointerEvents={isOpen ? undefined : 'none'} />
</TouchableWithoutFeedback>

Alternatively you can also provide onStartShouldSetResponder to your view, like so:

<View onStartShouldSetResponder={() => console.log("View click")}>
  // some code here
</View>

You can use TouchableOpacity, TouchableHighlight, TouchableNativeFeedback, to achieve this. View component doesn't provide onPress as props. So you use these instead of that.

<TouchableNativeFeedback
        onPress={this._onPressButton}
</TouchableNativeFeedback>

OR

<TouchableHighlight onPress={this._onPressButton}>
</TouchableHighlight>

OR

<TouchableOpacity onPress={this._onPressButton}>
</TouchableOpacity>