GT2/GT2-Android/node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/NATIVE_NAVIGATORS.md

Android installation for apps using native navigation libraries

If you are using native navigation library like wix/react-native-navigation you need to follow a different setup for your Android app to work properly.

Why?

The reason is that both native navigation libraries and Gesture Handler library need to use their own special subclasses of ReactRootView.

Installation with react-native-navigation

Instead of changing java code you will need to wrap every screen component using gestureHandlerRootHOC on the JS side. This can be done for example at the stage when you register your screens. Here is an example:

import { gestureHandlerRootHOC } from 'react-native-gesture-handler'
import { Navigation } from 'react-native-navigation';

import FirstTabScreen from './FirstTabScreen';
import SecondTabScreen from './SecondTabScreen';
import PushedScreen from './PushedScreen';

// register all screens of the app (including internal ones)
export function registerScreens() {
  Navigation.registerComponent('example.FirstTabScreen', () =>
    gestureHandlerRootHOC(FirstTabScreen));
  Navigation.registerComponent('example.SecondTabScreen', () =>
    gestureHandlerRootHOC(SecondTabScreen));
  Navigation.registerComponent('example.PushedScreen', () =>
    gestureHandlerRootHOC(PushedScreen));
}

You can check this example project to see this set up in action.

IMPORTANT!! Remember that you need to wrap each screen that you use in you rapp with gestureHandlerRootHOC as with native navigation libraries each screen maps to a separate root view. It is not enough to wrap the main screen only.