[Android] Cancel gestures on native ACTION_CANCEL

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Description

On Android, a v3 gesture still fires on lift when a native ancestor takes over the touch without the root hearing about it. Example: a nested PagerView. Its host requests disallow-intercept on DOWN, so the pager's own request on MOVE stops at the already flagged ancestor and never reaches the root. Swiping the pager starting on a tap counts as a tap. #4582 lists this as a known limit.

The sweep from #4441 and #4582 runs only on a disallow-intercept request, but the framework also sends ACTION_CANCEL down the old touch chain when an ancestor intercepts, and that always reaches the gesture's detector.

The detector now records the event time of a native ACTION_CANCEL and reports it to the root helper, which arms a second deferred sweep, only during a native pass so RNGH's own CANCELs are ignored. At the end of the pass the orchestrator cancels non-active handlers of the detectors that got the CANCEL for that event. The match is per detector: unlike a disallow request, a CANCEL names its target, so a gesture held by another finger elsewhere survives.

Test plan

• Nested PagerView: swipe the inner pager starting on a tap box, the page moves and the tap does not fire (was 5/5 phantom).
• DrawerLayoutAndroid: swipe the drawer open starting on a tap box, the drawer opens and the tap does not fire (was 5/5 phantom; needs 3-button navigation, with gesture navigation the system back swipe takes the edge).
• A plain tap on the box still fires.
• RN FlatList with v3 rows: drag-scroll from a row and tap to stop a fling still produce no tap ([Android] Cancel detector gestures when a native view above them takes over the touch #4582 unchanged).
• yarn lint:android passes.

Repro screen

// Repro for the #4582 follow-up on Android: a native view takes over the touch without the root
// ever seeing a disallow-intercept request, so the sweep from #4582 never runs and the v3 tap
// below still fires on lift. In both cases the framework delivers ACTION_CANCEL to the tap's
// detector when the view intercepts on MOVE - the hook for the follow-up listener.
// - Pager: swipe the inner pager starting on the Tap box. The inner pager host asked its ancestors
//   not to intercept on DOWN (#2383), so the pager's own request on MOVE stops at the already
//   flagged page view (#4582 "known limit").
// - Drawer: swipe the DrawerLayoutAndroid open from the right edge starting on the Tap box. DrawerLayout
//   intercepts on MOVE and never requests at all. With gesture navigation the system back swipe
//   eats the edge, use 3-button navigation for this one.
// Expected after the fix: the pager / drawer moves and `tapbox` stays 0.

import { useCallback, useState } from 'react';
import {
  DrawerLayoutAndroid,
  Pressable,
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  View,
} from 'react-native';
import {
  GestureDetector,
  GestureHandlerRootView,
  useTapGesture,
} from 'react-native-gesture-handler';
import PagerView from 'react-native-pager-view';

type Mode = 'pager' | 'drawer';

function TapBox({ onTap }: { onTap: () => void }) {
  const tap = useTapGesture({ runOnJS: true, onActivate: onTap });

  return (
    <View style={styles.center}>
      <GestureDetector gesture={tap}>
        <View style={styles.box}>
          <Text>Tap</Text>
        </View>
      </GestureDetector>
    </View>
  );
}

function PagerMode({ onTap }: { onTap: () => void }) {
  return (
    <PagerView style={styles.flex} initialPage={0}>
      <View key="outer-1" style={styles.flex}>
        <PagerView style={styles.flex} initialPage={0}>
          <View key="inner-1" style={styles.flex}>
            <TapBox onTap={onTap} />
          </View>
          <View key="inner-2" style={[styles.flex, styles.center]}>
            <Text>Inner page 2</Text>
          </View>
        </PagerView>
      </View>
      <View key="outer-2" style={[styles.flex, styles.center]}>
        <Text>Outer page 2</Text>
      </View>
    </PagerView>
  );
}

function DrawerMode({ onTap }: { onTap: () => void }) {
  return (
    <DrawerLayoutAndroid
      style={styles.flex}
      drawerWidth={300}
      drawerPosition="right"
      renderNavigationView={() => (
        <View style={[styles.flex, styles.center]}>
          <Text>Drawer</Text>
        </View>
      )}>
      <TapBox onTap={onTap} />
    </DrawerLayoutAndroid>
  );
}

export default function NativeTakeover() {
  const [mode, setMode] = useState<Mode>('pager');
  const [taps, setTaps] = useState(0);
  const onTap = useCallback(() => setTaps((count) => count + 1), []);

  return (
    <GestureHandlerRootView style={styles.flex}>
      <View style={styles.header}>
        <Text testID="counts" style={styles.counts}>{`tapbox=${taps}`}</Text>
        <View style={styles.buttons}>
          <Pressable
            testID="mode-pager"
            style={[styles.button, mode === 'pager' && styles.buttonActive]}
            onPress={() => setMode('pager')}>
            <Text>Pager</Text>
          </Pressable>
          <Pressable
            testID="mode-drawer"
            style={[styles.button, mode === 'drawer' && styles.buttonActive]}
            onPress={() => setMode('drawer')}>
            <Text>Drawer</Text>
          </Pressable>
          <Pressable
            testID="reset"
            style={styles.button}
            onPress={() => setTaps(0)}>
            <Text>Reset</Text>
          </Pressable>
        </View>
      </View>
      {mode === 'pager' ? (
        <PagerMode key={mode} onTap={onTap} />
      ) : (
        <DrawerMode key={mode} onTap={onTap} />
      )}
    </GestureHandlerRootView>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  flex: { flex: 1 },
  center: { flex: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center' },
  header: {
    paddingTop: 48,
    paddingHorizontal: 12,
    paddingBottom: 8,
    backgroundColor: '#eee',
  },
  counts: { fontSize: 16, fontFamily: 'monospace' },
  buttons: { flexDirection: 'row', gap: 8, marginTop: 8 },
  button: {
    paddingVertical: 8,
    paddingHorizontal: 14,
    backgroundColor: '#ccc',
    borderRadius: 6,
  },
  buttonActive: { backgroundColor: '#9ad' },
  box: {
    width: '100%',
    height: 200,
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#2a9d8f',
  },
});

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📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved Android gesture handling when native touch events cancel, preventing waiting gestures from activating unexpectedly.

• New Features

  • Added an example demonstrating native-intercept cancellation with nested paging and drawer interactions.
  • Added an automated Android test covering cancellation and normal tap behavior.

The Android gesture-handler flow records native touch cancellations and cancels matching inactive handlers at dispatch end. The common app adds a native-intercept example and an Android test flow for pager swipes and tap behavior.

Changes: Native Touch Cancellation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record and forward native cancellation packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerDetectorView.kt, .../RNGestureHandlerRootView.kt, .../RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.kt	The detector view records native ACTION_CANCEL event times and notifies the root view. The root view forwards the notification, and the helper records it during native touch dispatch.
Cancel matching inactive handlers packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.kt, .../core/GestureHandlerOrchestrator.kt	At dispatch end, the helper passes the event time to the orchestrator. The orchestrator selects matching inactive handlers and cancels them after removing the batch from awaiting state.
Add the native-intercept example and test flow apps/common-app/src/new_api/tests/nativeInterceptCancellation/index.tsx, apps/common-app/src/new_api/index.tsx, .argent/flows/native-intercept-cancellation-test.yaml	The common app adds pager and drawer modes with a tap box and registers the example for supported platforms. The Android flow checks pager swipes, tap counts, and gesture callback events.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DetectorView as RNGestureHandlerDetectorView
  participant RootView as RNGestureHandlerRootView
  participant RootHelper as RNGestureHandlerRootHelper
  participant Orchestrator as GestureHandlerOrchestrator
  DetectorView->>RootView: Notify of native ACTION_CANCEL
  RootView->>RootHelper: Forward cancellation notification
  RootHelper->>RootHelper: Record cancellation during native dispatch
  RootHelper->>Orchestrator: At dispatch end, pass eventTime
  Orchestrator->>DetectorView: Check recorded cancel event time
  Orchestrator->>Orchestrator: Cancel matching inactive handlers as a batch

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Suggested reviewers: j-piasecki

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 16ec0

A narrow timestamp collision can cause a native cancellation to discard an unrelated in-progress gesture. This is a bounded Android edge case, but should be tracked before release.

Pre-merge checks: 3

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main Android change: cancelling gestures when a native ACTION_CANCEL occurs.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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🟡 Changes recommended

Batch cancellation can synchronously activate an affected waiting gesture before that gesture is processed.

1 open finding

• Batch cancellation can activate and skip awaiting handlers · New

What changed in this PR

Adds Android handling for native ACTION_CANCEL events so pending v3 gestures do not activate after an ancestor intercepts touch input.

Changes:

• Tracks native cancellations per detector and notifies the root helper.
• Defers cancellation until native dispatch completes.
• Cancels matching non-active detector handlers.

File	Description
RNGestureHandlerRootView.kt	Forwards native cancellation notifications.
RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.kt	Coordinates deferred cancellation sweeps.
RNGestureHandlerDetectorView.kt	Records detector-specific cancellation timestamps.
GestureHandlerOrchestrator.kt	Cancels matching pending handlers.

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[j-piasecki]

Would it be possible to keep the repro in the example app and add an e2e test for it?

[m-bert]

Would it be possible to keep the repro in the example app and add an e2e test for it?

Sure, both added in b1e600e

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.argent/flows/native-takeover-test.yaml: 1

27-30: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add a drawer takeover check.

This flow swipes only the pager. If drawer interception regresses while pager interception still works, this flow will pass. Select mode-drawer, swipe from the box’s right edge, and check that the drawer opens without increasing the tap count. (docs.swmansion.com)

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Review comment at @.argent/flows/native-takeover-test.yaml around lines 27 - 30:
Extend the flow’s swipe checks to cover drawer takeover: select mode-drawer,
swipe from the right edge of the box, and assert that the drawer opens while the
tap count remains unchanged.

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select mode-drawer, swipe from the right edge of the box, and assert that the
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🟡 Minor · Record only native ACTION_CANCEL events in… · RNGestureHandlerDetectorView.kt:56-67

packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerDetectorView.kt:56-67
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Record only native ACTION_CANCEL events in lastNativeCancelTime.

RNGestureHandlerRootView dispatches a cloned ACTION_CANCEL for every ACTION_DOWN before onNativeDispatchStart(). RNGestureHandlerDetectorView records that clone's millisecond eventTime, although the root ignores it for cancellation. A later native cancel can have the same eventTime. GestureHandlerOrchestrator.cancelHandlersOnNativeTouchCancel then matches by timestamp only and can cancel inactive handlers hosted by another detector.

Suggested fix

diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerDetectorView.kt b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerDetectorView.kt
@@
       MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN -> lastNativeDownTime = event.downTime
       MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL -> {
-        lastNativeCancelTime = event.eventTime
-        RNGestureHandlerRootView.findGestureHandlerRootView(this)?.onNativeTouchCancelled()
+        val rootView = RNGestureHandlerRootView.findGestureHandlerRootView(this)
+        if (rootView?.onNativeTouchCancelled() == true) {
+          lastNativeCancelTime = event.eventTime
+        }
       }
     }

diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerRootView.kt b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerRootView.kt
@@
-  fun onNativeTouchCancelled() {
-    rootHelper?.onNativeTouchCancelled()
-  }
+  fun onNativeTouchCancelled(): Boolean =
+    rootHelper?.onNativeTouchCancelled() == true

diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.kt b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.kt
@@
-  fun onNativeTouchCancelled() {
-    if (passingNativeTouch) {
-      nativeTouchCancelled = true
-    }
+  fun onNativeTouchCancelled(): Boolean {
+    if (!passingNativeTouch) {
+      return false
+    }
+    nativeTouchCancelled = true
+    return true
   }

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Update `RNGestureHandlerDetectorView.dispatchTouchEvent` to set
`lastNativeCancelTime` only when the root confirms the cancel was accepted.
Propagate that result as a Boolean through
`RNGestureHandlerRootView.onNativeTouchCancelled` and
`RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.onNativeTouchCancelled`, returning true only when
`passingNativeTouch` is active.

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- Around line 56-67: Update `RNGestureHandlerDetectorView.dispatchTouchEvent` to
set `lastNativeCancelTime` only when the root confirms the cancel was accepted.
Propagate that result as a Boolean through
`RNGestureHandlerRootView.onNativeTouchCancelled` and
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