I have found the solution. React Navigation depends on the react-native-gesture-handler library. In the Installation section of React Navigation docs, it only says to create link by using the command react-native link. This is enough for iOS. But for Android, you have to edit the MainActivity.java file, so that the gesture handler library can work as expected:

import com.facebook.react.ReactActivity;+ import com.facebook.react.ReactActivityDelegate;+ import com.facebook.react.ReactRootView;+ import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.react.RNGestureHandlerEnabledRootView;public class MainActivity extends ReactActivity {  @Override  protected String getMainComponentName() {    return "Example";  }+  @Override+  protected ReactActivityDelegate createReactActivityDelegate() {+    return new ReactActivityDelegate(this, getMainComponentName()) {+      @Override+      protected ReactRootView createRootView() {+       return new RNGestureHandlerEnabledRootView(MainActivity.this);+      }+    };+  }}

Refer to the documentation: https://kmagiera.github.io/react-native-gesture-handler/docs/getting-started.html

Actually, it's nowhere stated in React Navigation documentation to modify any files, as it is specific to react-native-gesture-handler and not React Navigation. I am keeping the answer here so it may help others.

UPDATE: The latest docs of React Navigation addresses this issue

In the index.js of your project just use gestureHandlerRootHOC:

import {AppRegistry} from 'react-native';import App from './App';import {name as appName} from './app.json';import { gestureHandlerRootHOC } from 'react-native-gesture-handler'AppRegistry.registerComponent(appName, () => gestureHandlerRootHOC(App));

resource: https://github.com/react-navigation/drawer/issues/105#issuecomment-540667009

Update:

In React Navigation > 5.x

Just put react-native-gesture-handler at the beginning of root index.js

import 'react-native-gesture-handler';

Seems to be fixed in versions above 0.61.0, but for older versions this worked for me.

In the index.js :

. . .import {gestureHandlerRootHOC} from 'react-native-gesture-handler';AppRegistry.registerComponent(appName, () => gestureHandlerRootHOC(App));. . .