Android: How to detect when a scroll has ended

Question

I am using the onScroll method of GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener to scroll a large bitmap on a canvas. When the scroll has ended I want to redraw the bitmap in case

Answer 1

I haven't done this myself but looking at onTouch() you always get a sequence 0<2>1, so the end has to be a 1 for finger lift.

Answer 2

I am sure it is too late for you, however, it seems I have found the right solution to your original question and not necessary the intention.

If you are using Scroller/OverScroller Object for scrolling you should check the return value from the following function.

public boolean computeScrollOffset() 

enjoy

harvinder

Answer 3

I don't know Android, but looking at the documentation it seems Rob is right: Android ACTION_UP constant Try checking for ACTION_UP from getAction()?

Edit: What does e1.getAction() show? Does it ever return ACTION_UP? The documentation says it holds the initial down event, so maybe it'll also notify when the pointer is up

Edit: Only two more things I can think of. Are you returning false at any point? That may prevent ACTION_UP

The only other thing I'd try is to have a seperate event, maybe onDown, and set a flag within onScroll such as isScrolling. When ACTION_UP is given to onDown and isScrolling is set then you could do whatever you want and reset isScrolling to false. That is, assuming onDown gets called along with onScroll, and getAction will return ACTION_UP during onDown

Answer 4

This is what worked for me.

I've enriched the existing GestureDetector.OnGestureListener with onFingerUp() method. This listener does everything as the built-in GestureDetector and it can also listen to the finger up event (it's not onFling() as this is called only when the finger is lifted up along with a quick swipe action).

import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.view.GestureDetector;
import android.view.MotionEvent;

public class FingerUpGestureDetector extends GestureDetector {
    FingerUpGestureDetector.OnGestureListener fListener;
    public FingerUpGestureDetector(Context context, OnGestureListener listener) {
        super(context, listener);
        fListener = listener;
    }

    public FingerUpGestureDetector(Context context, GestureDetector.OnGestureListener listener, OnGestureListener fListener) {
        super(context, listener);
        this.fListener = fListener;
    }

    public FingerUpGestureDetector(Context context, GestureDetector.OnGestureListener listener, Handler handler, OnGestureListener fListener) {
        super(context, listener, handler);
        this.fListener = fListener;
    }

    public FingerUpGestureDetector(Context context, GestureDetector.OnGestureListener listener, Handler handler, boolean unused, OnGestureListener fListener) {
        super(context, listener, handler, unused);
        this.fListener = fListener;
    }

    public interface OnGestureListener extends GestureDetector.OnGestureListener {
        boolean onFingerUp(MotionEvent e);
    }

    public static class SimpleOnGestureListener extends GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener implements FingerUpGestureDetector.OnGestureListener {
        @Override
        public boolean onFingerUp(MotionEvent e) {
            return false;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        if (super.onTouchEvent(ev)) return true;
        if (ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
            return fListener.onFingerUp(ev);
        }
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 5

Here is how I solved the problem. Hope this helps.

// declare class member variables
private GestureDetector mGestureDetector;
private OnTouchListener mGestureListener;
private boolean mIsScrolling = false;


public void initGestureDetection() {
        // Gesture detection
    mGestureDetector = new GestureDetector(new SimpleOnGestureListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onDoubleTap(MotionEvent e) {
            handleDoubleTap(e);
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onSingleTapConfirmed(MotionEvent e) {
            handleSingleTap(e);
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onScroll(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX, float distanceY) {
            // i'm only scrolling along the X axis
            mIsScrolling = true;                
            handleScroll(Math.round((e2.getX() - e1.getX())));
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        /**
         * Don't know why but we need to intercept this guy and return true so that the other gestures are handled.
         * https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8233
         */
        public boolean onDown(MotionEvent e) {
            Log.d("GestureDetector --> onDown");
            return true;
        }
    });

    mGestureListener = new View.OnTouchListener() {
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

            if (mGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event)) {
                return true;
            }

            if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                if(mIsScrolling ) {
                    Log.d("OnTouchListener --> onTouch ACTION_UP");
                    mIsScrolling  = false;
                    handleScrollFinished();
                };
            }

            return false;
        }
    };

    // attach the OnTouchListener to the image view
    mImageView.setOnTouchListener(mGestureListener);
}

Answer 6

If you're using SimpleGestureDetector to handle your scroll events, you can do this

fun handleTouchEvents(event: MotionEvent): Boolean {
    if(event.action == ACTION_UP) yourListener.onScrollEnd()
    return gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event)
}