How to determine a long touch on android?

Question

I am looking for a way for when a user long touches a mapview (lets say for 1000ms) that i can some how do a certain action.

How would i go about judging how long a use

Answer 1

This is how do you normally create an onLongClickListener. Try this:

mapView.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onLongClick(View arg0) {

            Toast.makeText(mapView.getContext(), "Hello 123", 2000);

            return false;

        }
    });

Reference to your edit:

This might be the way to get what you want.

private final Handler handler = new Handler();
private final Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
     checkGlobalVariable();
}
};

// Other init stuff etc...

@Override
public void onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
    // Execute your Runnable after 1000 milliseconds = 1 second.
    handler.postDelayed(runnable, 1000);
    mBooleanIsPressed = true;
}

if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
    if(mBooleanIsPressed) {
        mBooleanIsPressed = false;
        handler.removeCallbacks(runnable);
    }
}
}

And now you can check with checkGlobalVariable function:

if(mBooleanIsPressed == true)

This is how you can handle this case. Good luck.