Chapter 21. Responding to User Gestures
All of the examples that you've implemented so far in this book have relied on user gestures. In traditional web applications, you generally worry about mouse events. However, touchscreens rely on the user manipulating elements with their fingers—fundamentally different from the mouse.
The goal of this chapter is to show you how the gesture response system inside of React Native works and some of the ways this system is exposed to us through components.
We'll begin with scrolling. This is probably the common gesture, besides touch. Then, we'll talk about giving the user the appropriate level of feedback when they interact with our components. Finally, we'll implement components that can be swiped.
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