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Gesture Responder System

Explore how React Native's gesture responder system enables mobile app interactions through touch gestures like scrolling and swiping. Understand how to implement responsive touch feedback to create intuitive user experiences in your apps.

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Unlike web applications, users interact with mobile applications using a touchscreen. Users can interact on a mobile phone using gestures, and React Native’s gestures responder system allows us to track and respond to gestures made by the user on our app’s screen. Besides touch, swiping is one of the most common gestures. In this lesson, we’ll cover the following gestures:

  • Scrolling

  • Swiping

  • Responsive touch feedback

Scrolling

Gestures control everything on a mobile phone on the screen. Scrolling on a web application is done by either dragging the scrollbar ...