Detect swipe left in React Native

I've found that react-native-swipe-gestures isn't stable (swipes works randomly on android) and react-native-gesture-handler is overcomplicated (too much efforts to just add to project).

Simplified solution based on Kuza Grave's answer, who's solution works perfect and very simple:

<View
      onTouchStart={e=> this.touchY = e.nativeEvent.pageY}
      onTouchEnd={e => {
        if (this.touchY - e.nativeEvent.pageY > 20)
          console.log('Swiped up')
      }}
      style={{height: 300, backgroundColor: '#ccc'}}
    />

There is an existing component react-native-swipe-gestures for handling swipe gestures in up, down, left and right direction, see https://github.com/glepur/react-native-swipe-gestures