--- title: Drag to Sort — React Native Gestures and Animations description: A walkthrough of building a drag-to-sort interaction in React Native using Reanimated and gesture handlers. Cards are absolutely positioned with shared value... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/drag-to-sort-react-native-gestures-and-animations-hxjliy7zz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Drag to Sort — React Native Gestures and Animations | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of building a drag-to-sort interaction in React Native using Reanimated and gesture handlers. Cards are absolutely positioned with shared value... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/drag-to-sort-react-native-gestures-and-animations-hxjliy7zz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hXjLiY7zZ.png og:image:alt: Drag to Sort — React Native Gestures and Animations og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Drag to Sort — React Native Gestures and Animations **[William Candillon](https://daily.dev/sources/wcandillon)** · 26 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of building a drag-to-sort interaction in React Native using Reanimated and gesture handlers. Cards are absolutely positioned with shared value offsets on the y-axis. When a card is dragged, its current position is used to calculate a new offset index, and the displaced card's offset is swapped. Active cards get a z-index boost and a scale animation. Non-active cards use a derived value to spring to their new positions when offsets change. The tutorial covers pan gesture setup, context-based offset tracking, z-index management with a shared activeCard value, and the core offset-swapping logic. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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