{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/1901","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/1901/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/1901/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/1901/events","html_url":"https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/1901","id":93640704,"number":1901,"title":"[Text] Highlight text when onPress provided and suppressHighlight != false","user":{"login":"brentvatne","id":90494,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/90494?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne","html_url":"https://github.com/brentvatne","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/labels/CLA%20Signed","name":"CLA Signed","color":"e7e7e7"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/labels/GH%20Review:%20review-needed","name":"GH Review: review-needed","color":"fbca04"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-07-07T22:08:59Z","updated_at":"2015-07-08T20:47:34Z","closed_at":null,"pull_request":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/pulls/1901","html_url":"https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/1901","diff_url":"https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/1901.diff","patch_url":"https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/1901.patch"},"body":"As per #303, prompted by the more recent issue #1863, this seems like something we should be supporting. This is a pretty simple implementation of it that just changes the opacity of the font color (or `[UIColor darkTextColor]` if none is provided) to 0.2 (same as TouchableOpacity). Works on nested text so you can provide touchable links.\r\n\r\n![touchy](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/90494/8558567/f4472854-24b9-11e5-9649-b45738705c95.gif)\r\n\r\n[Example code if you want to try it](https://gist.github.com/brentvatne/a61355f95427b3b608ab)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/comments/119726784","html_url":"https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/1901#issuecomment-119726784","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/1901","id":119726784,"user":{"login":"brentvatne","id":90494,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/90494?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne","html_url":"https://github.com/brentvatne","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brentvatne/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-08T20:47:34Z","updated_at":"2015-07-08T20:47:34Z","body":"@jtremback - sure, what kind of API would you like to see? I think we can move that to a separate PR because it will be harder to nail that down, here I'm most interested in just getting the default behaviour in place so we can at least have something"}}