Android - Intercept and pass on all touch events

Question

I have an overlay ViewGroup that is the size of the screen which I want to use to show an effect when the user interacts with the app, but still passes the onTouch event to any

Answer 1

Here's what I did, building on Dori's answer I used onInterceptTouch . . .

float xPre = 0;

@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if(Math.abs(xPre - event.getX()) < 40){
        return false;
    }
    if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN || event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP  || event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE){
        xPre = event.getX();
    }
    return true;
}

Basically, when any important movement is made, remember where it happened, via xPre; then if that point is close enough to the next point to be say, an onClick/onTouch of the child view return false and let onTouch do it's default thing.