Disable Swipe Gesture to Open

[JakielaAdam]

Perhaps I am overlooking a very obvious piece of documentation but I cannot figure out how to disable the swipe gesture. I have looked within this project and DrawerLayoutAndroid. I only want users to be able to open the drawer via a button. Is this possible?

Thank you for your effort on this project.

[DanielMSchmidt]

Hey @JakielaAdam Unfortunately not, this project aimed to be a Polyfill for the DrawerLayoutAndroid, which doesn't have such a functionality. We decoupled the react-native-drawer-layout-polyfill to be able to do such changes.

I would love to see a PR from you, the main part you would need to change is the _shouldSetPanResponder function. It controls if the user should be able to drag now. Adding a new prop like disableGuesture here and return false early should have the behavior you are searching for.

[JakielaAdam]

Hi @DanielMSchmidt Thanks for the response. I will consider the PR soon when I have more time.

[louiszawadzki]

Setting drawerLockMode to 'locked-closed' enables you to disable the "swipe to open" gesture.

You can still close the menu by swiping - but if that's not a concern for you, then you can use drawerLockMode.