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Stop the Pressable long press timer on touch up - #4644

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When a Pressable has requireToFail, the native button finalizes only after the other gesture fails, so the long press timer started at press-in keeps running after the finger lifted. With the default tap maxDelay (200 ms) and delayLongPress (500 ms), a tap held for 300 to 500 ms logs onLongPress about 100 ms after the lift and never gets onPress. This was always the case on iOS; #4639 brought Android to the same state.

The long press gesture now stops the pending timer on touch up. To keep a real long press suppressing onPress, the fired timer clears its own id, cancelLongPress no longer touches isOnPressAllowed, and every press-in resets the flag instead. No new hooks.

Follow-up to #4633 and #4639, surfaced by the CodeRabbit review on #4639.

Test plan

Drop the snippet below into the empty example and hold each box.

  • 400 ms: onPressIn, onPressOut, onPress on both boxes, no onLongPress
  • 700 ms: onPressIn, onLongPress, onPressOut, no onPress on both boxes
  • 400 ms again after the long press: onPress is back

Before this change the lower box logged onLongPress after the lift and no onPress for the 400 ms hold, on iOS and Android.

Also rerun the #4630 regression matrix (disable under the finger, pressDelay, RN and RNGH ScrollView drag, parent pan, requireToFail double tap, modal, unmount, nested Pressable, hitSlop), each row followed by a plain tap: every row identical to #4639 on both platforms.

Repro
import React, { useRef, useState } from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native';
import {
  GestureDetector,
  GestureHandlerRootView,
  Pressable,
  useTapGesture,
} from 'react-native-gesture-handler';

export default function Repro() {
  const [lines, setLines] = useState<string[]>([]);
  const pressInTime = useRef(0);
  const log = (line: string) => {
    const stamped = `${line} +${Date.now() - pressInTime.current}ms`;
    setLines((current) => [...current.slice(-7), stamped]);
  };
  const logPressIn = (name: string) => () => {
    pressInTime.current = Date.now();
    log(`${name}: onPressIn`);
  };

  const doubleTap = useTapGesture({ numberOfTaps: 2, runOnJS: true });

  return (
    <GestureHandlerRootView style={styles.container}>
      <Pressable
        onPressIn={logPressIn('plain')}
        onLongPress={() => log('plain: onLongPress')}
        onPressOut={() => log('plain: onPressOut')}
        onPress={() => log('plain: onPress')}>
        <View style={styles.box}>
          <Text>Plain Pressable</Text>
        </View>
      </Pressable>

      <GestureDetector gesture={doubleTap}>
        <View>
          <Pressable
            requireToFail={doubleTap}
            onPressIn={logPressIn('requireToFail')}
            onLongPress={() => log('requireToFail: onLongPress')}
            onPressOut={() => log('requireToFail: onPressOut')}
            onPress={() => log('requireToFail: onPress')}>
            <View style={styles.box}>
              <Text>Pressable with requireToFail</Text>
            </View>
          </Pressable>
        </View>
      </GestureDetector>

      <Text style={styles.log}>{lines.join('\n')}</Text>
    </GestureHandlerRootView>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: { flex: 1, alignItems: 'center', paddingTop: 40, gap: 24 },
  box: {
    width: 300,
    height: 80,
    backgroundColor: '#b58df1',
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
  log: { width: 300, fontSize: 14 },
});

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved long-press handling in pressable controls. Releasing a touch before the long-press delay expires now prevents the long-press action from firing afterward.
    • Starting a new press correctly restores press eligibility, and completed long-press timers are cleared.

StatefulPressable now resets press eligibility when a new press starts, clears the long-press timer reference after it fires, and cancels a pending long press on touch-up. Cancelling the timer no longer restores press eligibility.

Changes: Press handling

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Long-press lifecycle
packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/components/StatefulPressable.tsx
Press eligibility resets when a new press starts. The long-press callback clears its timer reference, and touch-up cancels a pending timer.

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Merge Risk: Low · up to f4e5e

A narrow multi-touch interaction can prevent the expected long-press callback; fix pointer-specific cancellation before merging.

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