React Native Touchable is disabling ScrollView

I'm new to React Native, so am probably asking something very obvious, but please help.

I have a view wrapped in a touchable, so that the whole area responds to tapping. Then have a ScrollView nested inside the view. The overall structure is something like this:

<TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={this.handlePress.bind(this)}>
    <View>
        <ScrollView>
            <Text>Hello, here is a very long text that needs scrolling.</Text>
        <ScrollView>
    </View>
</TouchableWithoutFeedback>

When this compiles and runs, the tapping is detected, but the scroll view doesn't scroll at all. I made the above code short and simple, but each component has the proper styling and I can see everything rendering fine and the long text is cutoff at the bottom of the ScrollView. Please help.

Thank you!

Solution 1:

This is what worked for me:

<TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={...}>
  <View>
    <ScrollView>
      <View onStartShouldSetResponder={() => true}>
        // Scrollable content
      </View>
    </ScrollView>
  </View>
</TouchableWithoutFeedback>

The onStartShouldSetResponder prop stops the touch event propagation towards the TouchableWithoutFeedback element.

Solution 2:

I'm using this structure it's working for me:

<TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={() => {}}>
    {other content}   
    <View onStartShouldSetResponder={() => true}>
        <ScrollView>
            {scrollable content}
        </ScrollView>
    </View>
</TouchableWithoutFeedback>

Solution 3:

You can have a scrollView or FlatList inside a TouchableWithoutFeedback. Tho you shouldn't but some times you have no other choice to go. Taking a good look at this questions and answer validates that. close react native modal by clicking on overlay, how to dismiss modal by tapping screen in react native.

For the Question, The only way you can make it work (atleast that i know of), or the simplest way is to add a TouchableOpacity around Text in your code like this,

 <TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={this.handlePress.bind(this)}>
    <View>
        <ScrollView>
          <TouchableOpacity>
            <Text>Hello, here is a very long text that needs scrolling.</Text>
          </TouchableOpacity>
        <ScrollView>
    </View>
</TouchableWithoutFeedback>

Note: TouchableOpacity is a wrapper for making Views respond properly to touches so automatically you can style it the way you would have styled your View Component then set some of its special props to whatever you want e.g activeOpacity etc. Moreso you can use TouchableHighlight it works, but it receives one child element i.e you enclose all your component inside a parent one.