React Native onPress being called automatically

Question

I am having trouble with react-native onPress Feature. The onPress should only work when it is actually been triggered by a touch event (i suppose) , that is when i press the button on the screen. But it seems the onPress gets triggered itself when the render function is called. When i try to press manually, it doesn't work.

  import React, { Component } from 'react';
  import { PropTypes, Text, View ,Alert } from 'react-native';
  import { Button } from 'react-native-material-design';

export default class Home extends Component {
  
  render() {
    return (
          <View style={{flex:1}}>
            <Button value="Contacts" raised={true} onPress={this.handleRoute('x')} />
            <Button value="Contacts" raised={true} onPress={this.handleRoute('y')} />
            <Button value="Contacts" raised={true} onPress={this.handleRoute('z')} />
          </View>
          );
}
handleRoute(route){
  alert(route) // >> x , y, z 
    }
}

  module.exports = Home;

What am i missing ? Is there something wrong with the way i have assigned or this is some bug ? Any suggestion is highly appreciated.

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Answer 1

try to change

onPress={this.handleRoute('x')} // in this case handleRoute function is called as soon as render happen

to

onPress={() => this.handleRoute.bind('x')} //in this case handleRoute doesn't called as soon as render happen