React Native Drag And Drop Tutorial

Hi Guys,

In this blog, I will explain you how to create drag and drop in react native. You can easily create drag and drop in react native. First i will import stylesheet namespace from react-native-draggable, after I will make drag and drop using in react native.

Here, I will give you full example for simply display drag and drop using react native as bellow.

Step 1 - Create project

In the first step Run the following command for create project.

expo init nicesnippetsApp 

Step 2 - Install Package

In the step,I will install npm i react-native-draggable package .

npm i react-native-draggable

Step 3 - App.js

In this step, You will open App.js file and put the code.

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { Text, View,StyleSheet} from 'react-native';
import { Provider ,Appbar} from 'react-native-paper';
import Draggable from 'react-native-draggable';

const MyWebtutsComponent = () => {

    const _goBack = () => console.log('Went back');

    const _handleSearch = () => console.log('Searching');

    const _handleMore = () => console.log('Shown more');

    return (
    <Provider>
        <Appbar.Header style={styles.header}>
          <Appbar.BackAction onPress={_goBack} />
          <Appbar.Content title="Draggable Example" />
          <Appbar.Action icon="magnify" onPress={_handleSearch} />
          <Appbar.Action icon="dots-vertical" onPress={_handleMore} />
        </Appbar.Header>
        <View style={styles.mainbox}>
          <Draggable x={75} y={100}  renderSize={100} renderColor='black' renderText='A' isCircle shouldReverse onShortPressRelease={()=>alert('touched!!')}/> 
          <Draggable x={200} y={300} renderColor='red' renderSize={80} renderText='B'/>
        </View>
    </Provider>
  );
};


const styles = StyleSheet.create({
    header:{
        backgroundColor: '#ffffff',
    }
});
export default MyWebtutsComponent;

Step 4 - Run project

In the last step run your project using bellow command.

npm start

Output

It will help you...