I'm developing an app with React Native which has to respond to tap gestures as soon as possible because more than one tap event can be fired in a second. No need for double tap or move gestures, but need to take care of simultaneous taps. I've been testing with both onTouchStart and PanResponder | onPanResponderGrant and seen that:
onTouchStartis fired twice when two taps are simultaneous, whileonPanResponderGrantis called just once.onPanResponderMoveis fired even when I haveonMoveShouldSetPanRespondertofalse, and it's fired many times when two taps are simultaneous, or when there are several taps in a second.- When several taps are done in a second,
onTouchStartworks fine, butonPanResponderGrantis fired less times.
Based on above reasons, I think that I'd better use onTouchStart.
Now the question is: Should I use onTouchStart even when React Native docs suggest to use the PanResponder for multi-touch gestures?
PanResponder reconciles several touches into a single gesture. It makes single-touch gestures resilient to extra touches, and can be used to recognize simple multi-touch gestures.
Or am I missing something of PanResponder?
Edit:
Also, gestureState.numberActiveTouches is always 1, event when two taps are simultaneous. I thought that this could do the trick.