React Native: View onPress does not work

Question

I'm facing a weird problem. In my react native app, if I set onPress event to View it is not triggered but if I set the same to Text inside View, it fires. What am I missing here?

<View style={{backgroundColor: "red", padding: 20}}>
  <Text onPress={()=> {
    console.log('works');
    }
  }>X</Text>
</View>


<View style={{backgroundColor: "red", padding: 20}} onPress={()=> {
    console.log('does not work');
    }
  }>
  <Text>X</Text>
</View>

Why is this so? Is this an issue with React Native? I'm using version 0.43

Answer 1

You can use TouchableOpacity for onPress event. View doesn't provide onPress prop.

<TouchableOpacity style={{backgroundColor: "red", padding: 20}} onPress={()=> {
    console.log('does not work');
    }
  }>
  <Text>X</Text>
</TouchableOpacity>