Add selectable text component

example/src/App.tsx

@@ -74,8 +74,10 @@ import PinInputExample from "./PinInputExample";
 import KeyboardAvoidingViewExample from "./KeyboardAvoidingViewExample";
 import ThemeExample from "./ThemeExample";
 import LoadingIndicatorExample from "./LoadingIndicatorExample";
+import SelectableTextExample from "./SelectableTextExample";
 
 const ROUTES = {
+  SelectableText: SelectableTextExample,
   LoadingIndicator: LoadingIndicatorExample,
   Theme: ThemeExample,
   AudioPlayer: AudioPlayerExample,

example/src/SelectableTextExample.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import * as React from "react";
+import { SelectableText, withTheme } from "@draftbit/ui";
+import Section, { Container } from "./Section";
+
+const SelectableTextExample: React.FC = () => {
+  return (
+    <Container style={{}}>
+      <Section style={{}} title="Default">
+        <SelectableText text="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum." />
+      </Section>
+      <Section style={{}} title="With styling">
+        <SelectableText
+          text="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."
+          style={{
+            fontSize: 30,
+            fontWeight: "bold",
+          }}
+        />
+      </Section>
+    </Container>
+  );
+};
+
+export default withTheme(SelectableTextExample);

packages/core/src/components/SelectableText.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import React from "react";
+import {
+  Platform,
+  TextInput,
+  Text,
+  TextStyle,
+  I18nManager,
+  StyleSheet,
+  TextInputProps,
+  TextProps,
+  StyleProp,
+} from "react-native";
+
+type Props = {
+  style?: StyleProp<TextStyle>;
+  text?: string;
+} & (TextInputProps | TextProps);
+
+const SelectableText: React.FC<Props> = ({ style, text, ...rest }) => {
+  const writingDirection: "auto" | "ltr" | "rtl" = I18nManager.isRTL
+    ? "rtl"
+    : "ltr";
+
+  const baseStyle = [styles.baseText, { writingDirection }, style];
+  if (Platform.OS === "ios") {
+    return (
+      <TextInput
+        {...rest}
+        value={text}
+        editable={false}
+        scrollEnabled={false}
+        multiline
+        style={baseStyle}
+      />
+    );
+  }
+  return (
+    <Text {...rest} selectable style={baseStyle}>
+      {text}
+    </Text>
+  );
+};
+
+const styles = StyleSheet.create({
+  baseText: {
+    textAlign: "left",
+  },
+});
+
+export default SelectableText;

packages/core/src/index.tsx

@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ export { default as SimpleStyleScrollView } from "./components/SimpleStyleScroll
 export { default as SimpleStyleSectionList } from "./components/SimpleStyleScrollables/SimpleStyleSectionList";
 export { default as SimpleStyleSwipeableList } from "./components/SimpleStyleScrollables/SimpleStyleSwipeableList";
 export { default as LoadingIndicator } from "./components/LoadingIndicator";
+export { default as SelectableText } from "./components/SelectableText";
 
 /* Deprecated: Fix or Delete!  */
 export { default as AccordionItem } from "./deprecated-components/AccordionItem";

packages/ui/src/index.tsx

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ export {
   SimpleStyleSectionList,
   SimpleStyleSwipeableList,
   LoadingIndicator,
+  SelectableText,
 } from "@draftbit/core";
 
 export {