I had in reactjs

render() {
  return (
    <div
      onMouseDown={this.onMouseDown}
      onMousUp={this.onMouseUp}
    >
    </div>
  )
}

For the purpose of running some code while the user was holding down the element.

How can I do the same thing in react-native? Simply turning div to View and keeping onMouseDown and onMouseUp doesn't do anything on either event, and this that I found: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44984892/3310334

<View onStartShouldSetResponder={() => true}
      onResponderStart={calledWhenTheTouchStarts}>
    <Text>Press Me!</Text>
</View>

Looks like unintentional misusage of an API