experimental_accessibilityOrder indicates the order in which an assistive technology focuses descendants of this View. This prop takes an array of strings where each string is a nativeID of some descendant component whose order is being defined. This prop does not enable accessibility itself, each referenced component still needs to be accessible by setting accessible to true. This prop is both nestable and exhaustive meaning

• If experimental_accessibilityOrder contains a reference to some non-accessible component, it will focus the descendants of that component in the default order. Additionally, it can also contain a reference to other components that also have an experimental_accessibilityOrder.
• If some component that is otherwise accessible is not directly referenced in experimental_accessibilityOrder, or nested within some container directly referenced in experimental_accessibilityOrder, then it will not be accessible.

See the accessibility guide for more information.

focusable AndroidVega

Whether this View should be focusable with a non-touch input device, eg. receive focus with a hardware keyboard.

accessibilityDescribedByKepler

This property receives a list of nativeID of elements which describe this element. It can be used in the context of TV to link an individual content tile with the details view or other on-screen elements which describe it. Like label relationships, description relationships should be reciprocal- if element A is describedBy elements B and C, then elements B and C should also be a descriptionFor element A.

accessibilityOrientationTextKepler

This optional string property describes how a user should interact with content inside this pane. It should only be included when the understanding of the visual layout of content is essential to navigating it successfully.

hitSlop

This defines how far a touch event can start away from the view. Typical interface guidelines recommend touch targets that are at least 30 - 40 points/density-independent pixels.

For example, if a touchable view has a height of 20 the touchable height can be extended to 40 with hitSlop={{top: 10, bottom: 10, left: 0, right: 0}}

id

Used to locate this view from native classes. Has precedence over nativeID prop.

importantForAccessibility AndroidVega Not Available

Controls how view is important for accessibility which is if it fires accessibility events and if it is reported to accessibility services that query the screen. Works for Android only.

Possible values:

• 'auto' - The system determines whether the view is important for accessibility - default (recommended).
• 'yes' - The view is important for accessibility.
• 'no' - The view is not important for accessibility.
• 'no-hide-descendants' - The view is not important for accessibility, nor are any of its descendant views.

See the Android importantForAccessibility docs for reference.

nativeID

Used to locate this view from native classes.

needsOffscreenAlphaCompositing

Whether this View needs to rendered offscreen and composited with an alpha in order to preserve 100% correct colors and blending behavior. The default (false) falls back to drawing the component and its children with an alpha applied to the paint used to draw each element instead of rendering the full component offscreen and compositing it back with an alpha value. This default may be noticeable and undesired in the case where the View you are setting an opacity on has multiple overlapping elements (e.g. multiple overlapping Views, or text and a background).

Rendering offscreen to preserve correct alpha behavior is extremely expensive and hard to debug for non-native developers, which is why it is not turned on by default. If you do need to enable this property for an animation, consider combining it with renderToHardwareTextureAndroid if the view contents are static (i.e. it doesn't need to be redrawn each frame). If that property is enabled, this View will be rendered off-screen once, saved in a hardware texture, and then composited onto the screen with an alpha each frame without having to switch rendering targets on the GPU.

nextFocusDown AndroidVega + TV Only

Designates the next view to receive focus when the user navigates down. See the Android documentation.

nextFocusForward AndroidVega + TV Only

Designates the next view to receive focus when the user navigates forward. See the Android documentation.

nextFocusLeft AndroidVega + TV Only

Designates the next view to receive focus when the user navigates left. See the Android documentation.

nextFocusRight AndroidVega + TV Only

Designates the next view to receive focus when the user navigates right. See the Android documentation.

nextFocusUp AndroidVega + TV Only

Designates the next view to receive focus when the user navigates up. See the Android documentation.

onAccessibilityAction

Invoked when the user performs the accessibility actions. The only argument to this function is an event containing the name of the action to perform.

See the Accessibility guide for more information.

onAccessibilityEscape iOSVega Not Available

When accessible is true, the system will invoke this function when the user performs the escape gesture.

onAccessibilityTap iOS

When accessible is true, the system will try to invoke this function when the user performs accessibility tap gesture.

onLayout

Invoked on mount and on layout changes.

This event is fired immediately once the layout has been calculated, but the new layout may not yet be reflected on the screen at the time the event is received, especially if a layout animation is in progress.

onMagicTap iOS Vega Not Available

When accessible is true, the system will invoke this function when the user performs the magic tap gesture.

onMoveShouldSetResponder

Does this view want to "claim" touch responsiveness? This is called for every touch move on the View when it is not the responder.

onMoveShouldSetResponderCapture

If a parent View wants to prevent a child View from becoming responder on a move, it should have this handler which returns true.

onResponderGrant

The View is now responding for touch events. This is the time to highlight and show the user what is happening.

On Android, return true from this callback to prevent any other native components from becoming responder until this responder terminates.

onResponderMove

The user is moving their finger.

onResponderReject

Another responder is already active and will not release it to that View asking to be the responder.

onResponderRelease

Fired at the end of the touch.

onResponderTerminate

The responder has been taken from the View. Might be taken by other views after a call to onResponderTerminationRequest, or might be taken by the OS without asking (e.g., happens with control center/ notification center on iOS)

onResponderTerminationRequest

Some other View wants to become responder and is asking this View to release its responder. Returning true allows its release.

onStartShouldSetResponder

Does this view want to become responder on the start of a touch?

onStartShouldSetResponderCapture

If a parent View wants to prevent a child View from becoming responder on a touch start, it should have this handler which returns true.

pointerEvents

Controls whether the View can be the target of touch events.

• 'auto': The View can be the target of touch events.
• 'none': The View is never the target of touch events.
• 'box-none': The View is never the target of touch events but its subviews can be. It behaves like if the view had the following classes in CSS:

.box-none {
  pointer-events: none;
}
.box-none * {
  pointer-events: auto;
}

• 'box-only': The view can be the target of touch events but its subviews cannot be. It behaves like if the view had the following classes in CSS:

.box-only {
  pointer-events: auto;
}
.box-only * {
  pointer-events: none;
}

ref

A ref setter that will be assigned an element node when mounted.

removeClippedSubviews

This is a reserved performance property exposed by RCTView and is useful for scrolling content when there are many subviews, most of which are offscreen. For this property to be effective, it must be applied to a view that contains many subviews that extend outside its bound. The subviews must also have overflow: hidden, as should the containing view (or one of its superviews).

renderToHardwareTextureAndroid Android Vega Not Available

Whether this View should render itself (and all of its children) into a single hardware texture on the GPU.

On Android, this is useful for animations and interactions that only modify opacity, rotation, translation, and/or scale: in those cases, the view doesn't have to be redrawn and display lists don't need to be re-executed. The texture can be re-used and re-composited with different parameters. The downside is that this can use up limited video memory, so this prop should be set back to false at the end of the interaction/animation.

role

role communicates the purpose of a component to the user of an assistive technology. Has precedence over the accessibilityRole prop.

shouldRasterizeIOS iOS Vega Not Available

Whether this View should be rendered as a bitmap before compositing.

On iOS, this is useful for animations and interactions that do not modify this component's dimensions nor its children; for example, when translating the position of a static view, rasterization allows the renderer to reuse a cached bitmap of a static view and quickly composite it during each frame.

Rasterization incurs an off-screen drawing pass and the bitmap consumes memory. Test and measure when using this property.

style

tabIndex Android Vega

Whether this View should be focusable with a non-touch input device, eg. receive focus with a hardware keyboard. Supports the following values:

• 0 - View is focusable
• -1 - View is not focusable

testID

Used to locate this view in end-to-end tests.

renderToHardwareTexture Vega

On Vega, this is useful for animations and interactions that only modify opacity, rotation, translation, and/or scale

renderToHardwareTextureKepler Vega

Deprecated. Use renderToHardwareTexture instead.

On Vega, this is useful for animations and interactions that only modify opacity, rotation, translation, and/or scale

hasTVPreferredFocus

Set to true to force the TV focus engine to move focus to this view. See the Documentation.

isFocusableInTouchMode

Determines whether the wrapped view is focusable in Touch mode

isPressable

Determines whether the wrapped view supports press interactions.

onBlur

Invoked when the item loses focus.

onFocus

Invoked when the item receives focus.

enableSynchronousFocusEventsKepler

When set to true, onFocus/onBlur events will be dispatched synchronously, blocking the UI Thread until the JavaScript execution of onFocus/onBlur completes.

voiceOrdinal

Add voiceOrdinal, used for ordinal selection for Voice Input.

voiceEntityType

Add voiceEntityType, used to indicate the entity type of an element.

voiceExternalIds

Add voiceExternalIds, used to represent the external ids of an element.

voiceAlternativeNames

Add voiceAlternativeNames, used to provide the alternative names selectable by voice commands.

altLabels Vega

The value for altLabels refers to the list of alternate names for the item. (Renamed from keplerAltLabels)

This prop is required if the app wants to allow user to perform voice selection on the same item with different names.

keplerAltLabels Vega

Deprecated. Use altLabels instead.

The value for keplerAltLabels refers to the list of alternate names for the item. (Renamed from keplerAtlLabels)

This prop is required if the app wants to allow user to perform voice selection on the same item with different names.

transportControlComponents

This trait indicates that this element contains transport controls.

Accepted Values

Sample usage reference

<View
    style={styles.container}
    transportControlComponents={{
        play:'playButton',
        forward:'forwardButton'
    }}>
    <TouchableOpacity 
        nativeID={'playButton'}>
        <Text>Play Button</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
    <TouchableOpacity 
        nativeID={'forwardButton'}>
        <Text>Forward Button</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
</View>

transportControls

Deprecated. Use transportControlComponents instead.

This trait indicates that this element contains transport controls.

Accepted Values

Sample usage reference

<View
    style={styles.container}
    transportControls={{
        play:'playButton',
        forward:'forwardButton'
    }}>
    <TouchableOpacity 
        nativeID={'playButton'}>
        <Text>Play Button</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
    <TouchableOpacity 
        nativeID={'forwardButton'}>
        <Text>Forward Button</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
</View>

Methods

.requestTVFocus() Vega

requestTVFocus();

Makes the native input request focus.

Last updated: May 13, 2026