useNativeDriver with PanResponder

Question

I was trying to move all things that I could to useNativeDriver. I tried this:

onPanResponderMove: Animated.event([null, { dy:this.state.appearAnim }], { useNativeDriver:true }),

However this causes the error of:

config.onPanResponderMove is not a function

If I just set useNativeDriver to false, it works as per expectations. Does anyone have any idea on how to use native driver with PanResponder?

Answer 1

I quote from the react-native github repository:

PanResponder can't work with Animated.event([], {useNativeDriver: true});

This is a current limitation of native Animated.event. It doesn't work with PanResponder because it is implemented in JavaScript. You can have a look at https://github.com/wix/react-native-interactable which can handle gestures with native animated values.

Looks like it is currently not possible to useNativeDriver with the PanResponder in react native.