Android: How to handle right to left swipe gestures

Question

I want my app to recognize when a user swipes from right to left on the phone screen.

How to do this?

Answer 1

@Mirek Rusin answeir is very good. But, there is small bug, and fix is requried -

public boolean onFling(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float velocityX, float velocityY) {
            boolean result = false;
            try {
                float diffY = e2.getY() - e1.getY();
                float diffX = e2.getX() - e1.getX();
                if (Math.abs(diffX) > Math.abs(diffY)) {
                    if (Math.abs(diffX) > SWIPE_THRESHOLD && Math.abs(velocityX) > SWIPE_VELOCITY_THRESHOLD) {
                        if (diffX > 0) {
                            if (getOnSwipeListener() != null) {
                                getOnSwipeListener().onSwipeRight();
                            }
                        } else {
                            if (getOnSwipeListener() != null) {
                                getOnSwipeListener().onSwipeLeft();
                            }
                        }
                        result = true;
                    }
                }
                else if (Math.abs(diffY) > SWIPE_THRESHOLD && Math.abs(velocityY) > SWIPE_VELOCITY_THRESHOLD) {
                    if (diffY > 0) {
                        if (getOnSwipeListener() != null) {
                            getOnSwipeListener().onSwipeBottom();
                        }
                    } else {
                        if (getOnSwipeListener() != null) {
                            getOnSwipeListener().onSwipeTop();
                        }
                    }
                    result = true;
                }

What the difference? We set result = true, only if we have checked that all requrinments (both SWIPE_THRESHOLD and SWIPE_VELOCITY_THRESHOLD are Ok ). This is important if we discard swipe if some of requrinments are not achieved, and we have to do smth in onTouchEvent method of OnSwipeTouchListener!