One of the issues I've noticed with PanResponder is that people assume it is an all or nothing.
By that I mean adding a PanResponder in a parent view means it will steal all of your touches and
Touchable items won't be touchable any longer.
You may be running into this because you copy and pasted it from here the documentation here
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/panresponder.html and it includes a capture phase returning true.
(I copy and paste this all the time).
We'll talk about the capture phase next.