Pressable

Pressable is a Core Component wrapper that can detect various stages of press interactions on any of its defined children.

<Pressable onPress={onPressFunction}>
  <Text>I'm pressable!</Text>
</Pressable>

How it works

On an element wrapped by Pressable:

• onPressIn is called when a press is activated.
• onPressOut is called when the press gesture is deactivated.

After pressing onPressIn, one of two things will happen:

1. The person will remove their finger, triggering onPressOut followed by onPress.
2. If the person leaves their finger longer than 500 milliseconds before removing it, onLongPress is triggered. (onPressOut will still fire when they remove their finger.)

Fingers are not the most precise instruments, and it is common for users to accidentally activate the wrong element or miss the activation area. To help, Pressable has an optional HitRect you can use to define how far a touch can register away from the wrapped element. Presses can start anywhere within a HitRect.

PressRect allows presses to move beyond the element and its HitRect while maintaining activation and being eligible for a "press"—think of sliding your finger slowly away from a button you're pressing down on.

The touch area never extends past the parent view bounds and the Z-index of sibling views always takes precedence if a touch hits two overlapping views.

You can set HitRect with hitSlop and set PressRect with pressRetentionOffset.

Pressable uses React Native's Pressability API. For more information around the state machine flow of Pressability and how it works, check out the implementation for Pressability.

Example

Props

android_disableSound

Android

If true, doesn't play Android system sound on press.

Type	Default
boolean	false

android_ripple

Android

Enables the Android ripple effect and configures its properties.

Type
RippleConfig

children

Either children or a function that receives a boolean reflecting whether the component is currently pressed.

Type
React Node

unstable_pressDelay

Duration (in milliseconds) to wait after press down before calling onPressIn.

Type
number

delayLongPress

Duration (in milliseconds) from onPressIn before onLongPress is called.

Type	Default
number	500

disabled

Whether the press behavior is disabled.

Type	Default
boolean	false

hitSlop

Sets additional distance outside of element in which a press can be detected.

Type
Rect or number

onLongPress

Called if the time after onPressIn lasts longer than 500 milliseconds. This time period can be customized with delayLongPress.

Type
({ nativeEvent: PressEvent }) => void

onPress

Called after onPressOut.

Type
({ nativeEvent: PressEvent }) => void

onPressIn

Called immediately when a touch is engaged, before onPressOut and onPress.

Type
({ nativeEvent: PressEvent }) => void

onPressOut

Called when a touch is released.

Type
({ nativeEvent: PressEvent }) => void

pressRetentionOffset

Additional distance outside of this view in which a touch is considered a press before onPressOut is triggered.

Type	Default
Rect or number	{ bottom: 30, left: 20, right: 20, top: 20 }

style

Either view styles or a function that receives a boolean reflecting whether the component is currently pressed and returns view styles.

Type
View Style

testOnly_pressed

Used only for documentation or testing (e.g. snapshot testing).

Type	Default
boolean	false

Type Definitions

RippleConfig

Ripple effect configuration for the android_ripple property.

Type
object

Properties:

Name	Type	Required	Description
color	color	No	Defines the color of the ripple effect.
borderless	boolean	No	Defines if ripple effect should not include border.
radius	number	No	Defines the radius of the ripple effect.
foreground	boolean	No	Set to true to add the ripple effect to the foreground of the view, instead of the background. This is useful if one of your child views has a background of its own, or you're e.g. displaying images, and you don't want the ripple to be covered by them.