Passing touch events to the parent view

Question

I have a custom ViewSwitcher in which I implemented touch events so I am able to scroll through screens using the touchscreen.

My layout hierarchy looks

Answer 1

In my parent layout, the only way I have found to prevent the child from capturing the touch event is by overriding onInterceptTouchEvent to return true.

@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev)
{
    return true;
}