React Native: View onPress does not work

I'm facing a weird problem. In my react native app, if I set onPress event to View it is not triggered but if I set the same to Text inside View, it fires. What am I missing here?

<View style={{backgroundColor: "red", padding: 20}}>
  <Text onPress={()=> {
    console.log('works');
    }
  }>X</Text>
</View>


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

Why is this so? Is this an issue with React Native? I'm using version 0.43

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>

onPress doesn't work on <View> tag use <TouchableOpacity> instead of View

<View>
<TouchableOpacity onPress={() => 'call your function here'}>
</TouchableOpacity>
</View>

A new pressable component is provided in 0.67 of react native, which can solve your problem. It runs anywhere enter image description here

well we can make the View have a onPress props onStartShouldSetResponder and onResponderGrant

<View
    onStartShouldSetResponder={() => true}
    onResponderGrant={() => console.log("view pressed")}
  >
</View>

You can use TouchableOpacity for that purpose

<TouchableOpacity onPress={() => {your code here}}>
    //Your inner views here
</TouchableOpacity>

In View onPress will not work because onPress event is not supported in view tag.That is why it is not working but you can go to this link https://reactnative.dev/docs/view

2021

> If you're looking for a more extensive and future-proof way to handle touch-based input, check out the Pressable API.

Source: https://reactnative.dev/docs/touchablewithoutfeedback

For anybody who's lookig for a solution to this, as of RN 0.63, there is a new Pressabe api. It might have rolled out a couple versions earlier but it works great for such use cases.

<Pressable onPress={onPressFunction}>
    <Text onPress={() => {
        console.log('works');
    }}>X</Text>
</Pressable>