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

This issue still exists. An OnTouchListener with an OnSwipeTouchListener solves it in a simple way:

myView.setOnTouchListener(
    new View.OnTouchListener() {
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            if(!swipe.onTouch(v, event)) {
                if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                    // your code here

                    return true;
                } else if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
                    // your code here

                    return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }

    }
);

where swipe refers to a class which records whether swipe methods have been invoked, then forwards events to the delegate OnSwipeTouchListener.

private class DirtyOnSwipeTouchListener extends OnSwipeTouchListener {
    private boolean dirty = false;
    private OnSwipeTouchListener delegate;

    public DirtyOnSwipeTouchListener(Context ctx, OnSwipeTouchListener delegate) {
        super(ctx);

        this.delegate = delegate;
    }

    private void reset() {
        dirty = false;
    }

    public void onSwipeTop() {
        dirty = true;
        delegate.onSwipeTop();
    }

    public void onSwipeRight() {
        dirty = true;
        delegate.onSwipeRight();
    }

    public void onSwipeLeft() {
        dirty = true;
        delegate.onSwipeLeft();
    }

    public void onSwipeBottom() {
        dirty = true;
        delegate.onSwipeBottom();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        try {
            super.onTouch(v, event);

            return dirty;
        } finally {
            dirty = false;
        }

    }
};