[Bug]: Can't drag when used inside a scrollable True Sheet on Android, if the number of items is smaller than the sheet

[dccarmo]

Description

What's interesting is that even disabling the ScrollView component (via scrollEnabled), it still doesn't work. It seems like on Android, the scroll captures the action and prevents the scroll from happening. If I replace ScrollView with a static View, then the drag and drop works as expected.

Screen.Recording.2026-02-09.at.08.47.58.mp4

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a True Sheet with scrollable and drag and drop support
2. If the sheet has less items than the height (which on Android means it won't scroll), you can't drag

Code snippet, Snack or GitHub repository link

https://github.com/dccarmo/android-scroll

React Native Sortables version

^1.9.4

Reanimated version

~4.1.1

React Native Gesture Handler version

~2.28.0

React Native version

0.81.4

Platforms

Android

Architecture

Fabric (New Architecture)

Workflow

Expo Dev Client

Device

Android emulator

Acknowledgements

Yes

[piotrziolko]

@dccarmo solved?

[MatiPl01]

Hey @dccarmo!

I was able to reproduce the issue. Since the true-sheet library uses native gesture recognizer, I wasn't able to easily interact and disable this gesture on sortable item drag start. What I was able to do, though, was disabling panning of the sheet via the draggable property.

const [isSorting, setIsSorting] = useState(false);

<TrueSheet
  ...
  draggable={!isSorting}
  dismissible={!isSorting}
>
  <GestureHandlerRootView>
    <Animated.ScrollView
      ...
    >
      <Sortable.Grid
        ...
        onDragStart={() => setIsSorting(true)} // disables sheet panning
        onDragEnd={() => setIsSorting(false)} // enables sheet panning
      />
    </Animated.ScrollView>
  </GestureHandlerRootView>
</TrueSheet>

Screen.Recording.2026-02-12.at.10.36.27.mp4

[MatiPl01]

One more thing here. You said that it works when the content of the scrollable is higher than the scrollable itself. It seems to work but there is still an issue with the grabber/handler of the sheet so I think you'd have to disable dragging in the same way as I suggested above.

Screen.Recording.2026-02-12.at.10.27.49.mp4

[dccarmo]

@MatiPl01 thanks for the update and the workaround! Is this something you believe it's fixable? If not, maybe we should close this issue and leave it as documentation.

[MatiPl01]

Is this something you believe it's fixable? If not, maybe we should close this issue and leave it as documentation.

Since the behavior differs only on Android and the implementation uses the native platform gesture recognizer, I think I won't be able to fix the issue on my end. Maybe there is a solution that I am not aware of but, at least for now, I don't know how to better fix it.

If the solution I proposed is sufficient for you, I think we can close the issue. If more people encounter similar problems, the issue can be re-opened and we may think if there is a better approach than this.