Touchable elements within FlatList / SectionList not registering

[Mayzie]

Description

For some reason, Touchable* elements within a FlatList or SectionList view, do not register touches. Rather, it seems that upon rendering a FlatList, a touch event immediately occurs.

Reproduction Steps and Sample Code

The following, upon render, will produce an alert, "Touched". This should not happen, only on element touch. Furthermore, you cannot touch the TouchableHighlight element and have an alert popup (no highlight colours, nothing).

import {
	Alert,
	FlatList,
	TouchableHighlight,
} from 'react-native';

...

<FlatList
	data={[{'name': 'Frodo Baggins', 'address': 'Bag End, Bagshot Row, Hobbiton'}]}
	renderItem={({person}) =>
		<TouchableHighlight
			onPress={() => Alert.alert('Touched') }
			underlayColor='black'
		>
			<View>
				<Text style={{ fontSize: 24 }}>{ person.name }</Text>
				<Text>{ person.address }</Text>
			</View>
		</TouchableHighlight>
	}
	style={{ flex: 1, flexDirection: 'column', padding: 10 }}
/>

Solution

Make elements touchable within FlatList (and SectionList, which exhibits the same behaviour).

Additional Information

• React Native version: react-native: 0.44.0
• Platform: both
• Development Operating System: Linux & Mac OSX Sierra
• Dev tools: Xcode 8, react-native run-android

[marktrobinson]

I too am having trouble getting touchable elements to work with FlatList. In particular, TextInput

Edit - Solution: My problem was that my TextInput didn't have a height so there was nothing to tap on, add a height to your TouchableHighlight to see if that makes a difference

[bbeckk]

same problem here too. Have you found the soln?

[bbeckk]

same problem here too. Have you found the soln?

[hailie-rei]

This solution helped me: #13649
I created a separated pure component for my FlatList item, and now Touchable event works immediately.

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[mahgolfa]

I recommend u to use ListItem:
1- install react-native elements :
yarn add react-native-elements
or with npm:
npm install --save react-native-elements
2- import it to ur project :
import { ListItem } from 'react-native-elements'
3- use :
<FlatList
data= {this.state.data}
renderItem={({item}) => <ListItem
title = {item} onPress={() => Alert.alert('pressed') }
/> }
keyExtractor={(item, index) => index.toString()}
/>

for more information : https://react-native-training.github.io/react-native-elements/docs/listitem.html

[zhangyic01]

Hi
I have seen exactly the same problem as Mayzie stated. I have somehow managed to find a solution. It appeared to me as a magic. I am not sure how it worked.

render() {
    return(
                <View>
                    <TouchableOpacity  onPress={null} >
                    <Card containerStyle={styles.card} >
                    <TouchableOpacity  onPress={this.onPressRecom} >
                     .....
                 </View>
      )
  }

This is basically how you do. You set onPress to null at outmost wrapper. Then you set to whatever you want to cllick. onPressRecom is my local function. It worked on me as the log appears correct.

It seems that the flatlist renderItem function will render many times, and each time it renders it automatically trigger the touch event. Making it more confusing, after it finishes rendering, click on the touch event, nothing will work. Hmmm... anyways, this hacky way worked for me. I do not know why though. Besides, I tried to follow flatlist example from https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/flatlist, follow "multi-select example" using pure component.

Let me know if you have proper way of doing it.

[gurol]

@pull-bot: Certainly, the issue has not been fixed in a recent release and perhaps it is affecting a lot of people. 😀