react-native-gesture-handler

The @amazon-devices/react-native-gesture-handler library is a declarative API, exposing platform native touch and gesture system to React Native.

React Native Gesture Handler provides native-driven gesture management APIs for building the best possible touch-based experiences in React Native.

With this library, the JavaScript responder system no longer controls gestures, but instead, gestures are recognized and tracked in the UI thread. This library makes touch interactions and gesture tracking not only smooth, but also dependable and deterministic.

This library is system-deployed and available to React Native for Vega apps without a separate installation process. The library is autolinking, which your app links to at runtime. The library is guaranteed to be compatible only with the version of React Native for Vega for which it's built.

When you uplevel your app's version of React Native for Vega, consider the best practice of upleveling its library dependencies.

For more information about this library and its API, see https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-gesture-handler/docs/ in the official Software Mansion documentation.

Installation

1. Add the JavaScript library dependency in the package.json file:

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   "dependencies": {
         ...
         "@amazon-devices/react-native-gesture-handler": "~2.0.0"
   }
   

2. Reinstall package-lock.json file using the npm install command.

API reference

Gesture-Handler library on Vega adds a support for all gesture types and native components listed in the official documentation.

Gestures

Gesture	Type	Description
Pan	Continuous	Recognizes a panning (dragging) gesture and track its movement.
Tap	Discrete	Recognizes one or many taps.
Long press	Discrete	Activates when the corresponding view is pressed for a sufficiently long time.
Rotation	Continuous	Recognizes a rotation gesture and tracks its movement.
Pinch	Continuous	Recognizes the pinch gesture and tracks the distance between two fingers. This handler uses that information to scale or zoom your content.
Fling	Discrete	Activates when the movement is sufficiently long and fast.
Manual	Plain	No specific activation criteria nor event data set. The app developers must handle the state programmatically in their application logic using a gesture state manager.

Native components

Native component	Description
RNGestureHandlerButton	Gesture handler library that provides native components that can act as buttons. These components can be a replacement to TouchableHighlight or TouchableOpacity from the RN core.

Supported versions

Package name	Amazon NPM library version	Vega OS build number	Vega SDK version	Release notes
@amazon-devices/react-native-gesture-handler	2.0.0+2.13.0	OS 1.1 (201010435950)	0.19
@amazon-devices/react-native-gesture-handler	2.0.0+2.13.0	OS 1.1 (201010438050)	0.20

Related topics

Supported Third-Party Libraries and Services.

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Last updated: Sep 30, 2025