Implementing Swipe action on ViewFlipper with multiple GridViews

Question

I have the following code to listen to Swipe action to navigate between GridViews in my ViewFlipper. However, it detects the Swipe inconsistently. I added the Gesture Listener t

Answer 1

I have a couple of questions/observations here:

Q: Can you elaborate on what you mean by inconsistently? Is there any pattern to when the swipe is not detected? Does it work at all? If so, when?

Q: In your main Activity, in the over-riden onTouchEvent(MotionEvent me) method do you return myGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(me) like this?

@Override    
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent me) {
     return myGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(me);    
}

here myGestureDetector is an object of your MyGestureDetector class and this basically attaches your GestureDetector to the touch event

Observation: Can you please return true as soon as your gesture processing is done, that tells android that the gesture capture is done, for example

        if(e1.getX() - e2.getX() > SWIPE_MIN_DISTANCE && Math.abs(velocityX) > SWIPE_THRESHOLD_VELOCITY) {
            flipper.setInAnimation(slideLeftIn);
            flipper.setOutAnimation(slideLeftOut);
            flipper.showNext();
            //return true if the gesture event is consumed
            return true; 
        }  else if (e2.getX() - e1.getX() > SWIPE_MIN_DISTANCE && Math.abs(velocityX) > SWIPE_THRESHOLD_VELOCITY) {
            flipper.setInAnimation(slideRightIn);
            flipper.setOutAnimation(slideRightOut);
            flipper.showPrevious();
            //return true if the gesture event is consumed
            return true;
        }

Answer 2

1) have u added all the gridviews in viewflipper.

viewFlipper = (ViewFlipper)findViewById(R.id.flipper);
            slideLeftIn = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.slide_left_in);
            slideLeftOut = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.slide_left_out);
            slideRightIn = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.slide_right_in);
            slideRightOut = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.slide_right_out);

            gestureDetector = new GestureDetector(new MyGestureDetector());
            gestureListener = new View.OnTouchListener() 
                {
                    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) 
                    {
                        if (gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event)) 
                        {
                                return true;
                        }
                        else{
                                return false;}
                        }
                };

I have added these in my code it is working fine.just check this let me know

Answer 3

I keep seeing the same swipe gesture detection code all over StackOverflow, so I have attempted to clean it up a bit. This is a generic listener which can fire events for right or left swipes (easily extended to other

public class SwipeListener extends GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener {

    private static final int SWIPE_MIN_DISTANCE = 120;
    private static final int SWIPE_MAX_OFF_PATH = 250;
    private static final int SWIPE_THRESHOLD_VELOCITY = 200;

    private SwipeHandler handler;

    public SwipeHandler getHandler() {
        return handler;
    }

    public void setHandler(SwipeHandler handler) {
        this.handler = handler;
    }

    public boolean onFling(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float velocityX, float velocityY) {

        if (Math.abs(e1.getY() - e2.getY()) > SWIPE_MAX_OFF_PATH)
            return false;

        // left
        if (e1.getX() - e2.getX() > SWIPE_MIN_DISTANCE
                && Math.abs(velocityX) > SWIPE_THRESHOLD_VELOCITY) {

            if (handler != null) {
                handler.onLeft();

                return true;
            }

        // right
        } else if (e2.getX() - e1.getX() > SWIPE_MIN_DISTANCE
                && Math.abs(velocityX) > SWIPE_THRESHOLD_VELOCITY) {

            if (handler != null) {
                handler.onRight();

                return true;
            }
        }

        return super.onFling(e1, e2, velocityX, velocityY);
    }

    public static abstract class SwipeHandler{
        public void onLeft() {}
        public void onRight() {}
    }
}

And then to use this anywhere, just create an instance, setup your swipe event handlers, and attach it:

    SwipeListener swipeListener = new SwipeListener();
    swipeListener.setHandler(new SwipeListener.SwipeHandler() {
        @Override
        public void onRight() {
            doSomething();
        }
    });

    someView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            return gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event);
        }
    });