onInterceptTouchEvent, onTouchEvent only see ACTION_DOWN

Question

I have a top level ViewGroup, which I call SliderView, in which I want to detect swiping. This is mostly working, but one weird failure persists.

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Answer 1

When intercepting onTouchEvent, there are two things to do to properly intercept the touches (all else being default).

1. Return false in onInterceptTouchEvent()

   @Override
   public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent me) {
       return false;
   }
   

2. Return true in onTouchEvent()

   @Override
   public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent me) {
   
       switch (me.getAction()) {
       case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
           log("MotionEvent.ACTION_DONE");
           break;
       case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
           log("MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE");
           break;
       case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
           log("MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL");
           userActionDown = false;
           break;
       case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
           log("MotionEvent.ACTION_UP");
           break;
       }
   
       return true;
   }
   

3. Then, for your case (and others). Do all your calculations in the onTouchEvent() as shown above. The onInterceptTouchEvent() will only be called once for the ACTION_DOWN. But, the onTouchEvent will also get the ACTION_DOWN event, and you'll need to return true there, rather than the super.

For more information regarding onInterceptTouchEvent(): http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGroup.html#onInterceptTouchEvent(android.view.MotionEvent)

ps - When you ask questions here, you should also write the description of what you are trying to do. You might quite possibly find much better ways of doing things. For your case of navigation, the real answer you are looking for is ViewPager. It works great and is very easy to implement. You should also check out some other easy navigation patters that Android has to offer developers: link.