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Add onPressIn, onPressOut props to Button

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
react-native, typescript
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start by locating the TypeScript Button component and its existing press-related props, then inspect the associated tests. The work is done when Button accepts onPressIn and onPressOut as props, passes them through as requested, and the relevant tests cover their behavior.

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Description

feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It'd be very helpful to add onPressIn and onPressOut props to the Button component.

Describe the solution you'd like
Add additional props onPressIn and onPressOut to pass to the Button component.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Manually wrapping it with Pressable

Additional context
I already saw someone requested this feature before.

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