React-native-gesture-handler: PanGestureHandler doesn't work with WebView as child

[allthetime]

Hi, I'm working only on iOS right now and when I put a WebView (react-native-webview) in a PanGestureHandler, I get no response from onGestureEvent.

If I put a normal, empty View inside, I get data from onGestureEvent

react-native v0.59.9
react-native-gesture-handler v1.3.0

[allthetime]

  _onPanGestureEvent = () => {
    log('got something')
  }

  _render_web_view = () => {
       return <WebView 
         style={{
           marginTop: 20,
           height: height,
           width: width,
         }}
         scrollable={false}
         source={ require('./canvas.html') }
       />
  }

  _render_empty_view = ()=> {
    return<View
      style={ styles.container }
    />
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <PanGestureHandler
        onGestureEvent={this._onPanGestureEvent}>      
        {  this._render_web_view() }
       {  /* this._render_empty_view()*/ }
     </PanGestureHandler>
    );
  }

[allthetime]

Wrapping the WebView in another View with flex:1 works, but why doesn't it work without a wrapper?

[viviangledhill]

seeing the same thing - though wrapping the WebView with a View and flex:1 does not help for me

[DomiR]

The flex:1 workaround seems to work for iOS but not for Android. Although we can add a FlingGestureHandler a single-tap does not work as expected on android. The webview will focus links but will not follow them when tapping. Do you have a workaround for this as well?

[pjay79]

Seeing same issue with WebView as child for PanGestureHandler, getting no response from onGestureEvent or onHandlerStateChange. Wrapping in View does not work for me.

[jakub-gonet]

Could you please provide a small code example showing this problem?

[andmau90]

I think that the issue is inside alghoritm that check the child inside ViewGroup that can handle the touch but WebView on android is a ViewGroup without child so is skipped.

my workaroud is the following:

[jakub-gonet]

What happens if you wrap WebView with NativeViewGestureHandler?

[mikos]

Has anyone managed to get this working? I'm trying to add a WebView to the BottomSheet example but haven't had any luck.