Data Components with images supporting onPress events in React Native

[nambiarn]

Here's how I achieved providing onPress events for dataComponents being an image in react-native.

Issue:
The onPress event wasn't working for a dataComponent that had an image, similar to what is shown below.
I was using the Image tag from react-native, quite a standard way to render an image in a react component.

Resolution:
The Image tag from react-native is not compatible with react-native to support an onPress event.
After the Image tag from react-native was replaced with the image tag from react-native-svg, it worked like a charm.

Time consuming lesson learned. Hopefully this is of help to someone.