How to determine a long touch on android?

Question

I am looking for a way for when a user long touches a mapview (lets say for 1000ms) that i can some how do a certain action.

How would i go about judging how long a use

Answer 1

You can set up a longClickListener and a touchListener. Add a boolean class data member variable longClicked and set it to false initially. This is how you can set the longClickListener.

    view.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
            longClicked = true;
            return false;
        }
    });

For touchListener

    view.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            if(longClicked){
                //Do whatever you want here!!
                longClicked = false;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

It will give you the same effect as google maps long click. Hope it helps.