# Making Your React Native Gestures Feel Natural

DevFeed: [Making Your React Native Gestures Feel Natural](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/making-your-react-native-gestures-feel-natural-1479.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/making-react-native-gestures-feel-natural>)

Author: Andrew Lo

Published: 2023-01-20T18:37:05Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [React Native](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react-native.md>), [draggable](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/draggable.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [React UI animations](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react-ui-animations.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [animation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/animation.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [draggable](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/draggable.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [react-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react-native.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to make draggable React Native interfaces feel more natural. Using a Shop app Sheet component, it shows how incorporating drag velocity, position, spring animations, elasticity, and resistance can improve gesture feedback and transitions.

## Source excerpt

When working with draggable elements in React Native mobile apps, there are some simple ways to help gestures and animations feel better and more natural.