The React Native examples you've worked with so far in this book have used plain text to act as buttons or links. In web applications, to make text look like something that can be clicked, you just wrap it with the appropriate link. There's no such thing as mobile links, so you can style your text to look like a button.
Let's style some text as a button. This is a great first step as it makes the text look touchable. But you also want to give visual feedback to the user when they start interacting with the button. React Native provides two components to help with this: TouchableOpacity and TouchableHighlight. But before diving into the code, let's take a look at what these components look like visually when users interact with them, starting with...
