useDirection and useDirectionSign

These hooks read the direction established by Direction. Outside a provider they fall back to React Native's device-wide I18nManager setting.

useDirection

Returns 'ltr' or 'rtl'. Use it when React Native cannot infer a value from Yoga layout alone, such as paragraph alignment or an explicitly directed label.

import { useDirection } from 'panelui-native';

const direction = useDirection();
const textAlign = direction === 'rtl' ? 'right' : 'left';

useDirectionSign

Returns 1 for LTR and -1 for RTL. Multiply directional offsets, drag translations or sweep angles by it instead of repeating conditional sign logic.

import { useDirectionSign } from 'panelui-native';

const direction = useDirectionSign();
const translated = gesture.translationX * direction;