Touch and drag image in android

Question

I am working on some example in which i want to drag the image corresponding to touch in Android. Does anybody have an idea about how I can do it?

Answer 1

As a slight modification to the TouchBall answer - if you really don't have a game loop - in other words, the only changes to the screen are directly due to user input - then it might make more sense to leave out the thread. Otherwise it is just constantly looping and redrawing even if nothing has changed. So:

public class TouchBall extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        int w=getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getWidth()-25;
        int h=getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getHeight()-25;

        BallView ballView=new BallView(this,w,h);
        setContentView(ballView);
    }
}

public class BallView extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback {
    private Bitmap bitmap ;
    private int x=20,y=20;int width,height;

    public BallView(Context context,int w,int h) {
        super(context);

        width=w;
        height=h;
        getHolder().addCallback(this);
        setFocusable(true);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        super.onDraw(canvas);

        bitmap =BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.ball_green);
        canvas.drawColor(Color.BLUE);//To make background 
        canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap,x-(bitmap.getWidth()/2),y-(bitmap.getHeight()/2),null);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        x=(int)event.getX();
        y=(int)event.getY();

        if(x<25)
            x=25;
        if(x> width)   
            x=width;
        if(y <25)
            y=25;
        if(y > 405)
            y=405;

        updateBall();

        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width,int height) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

    @Override
    public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

    @Override
    public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

    private void updateBall() {
        Canvas canvas = null;
        try {
            canvas = getHolder().lockCanvas(null);
            synchronized (getHolder()) {
                this.onDraw(canvas);
            }
        }
        finally {
            if (canvas != null) {
                getHolder().unlockCanvasAndPost(canvas);
            }
        }
    }   
}

Admittedly, I am new to Android development, so I may be missing something here.