Android: How to handle right to left swipe gestures

Question

I want my app to recognize when a user swipes from right to left on the phone screen.

How to do this?

Answer 1

To add an onClick as well, here's what I did.

....
// in OnSwipeTouchListener class

private final class GestureListener extends SimpleOnGestureListener {

    .... // normal GestureListener  code

   @Override
    public boolean onSingleTapConfirmed(MotionEvent e) {
        onClick(); // my method
        return super.onSingleTapConfirmed(e);
    }

} // end GestureListener class

    public void onSwipeRight() {
    }

    public void onSwipeLeft() {
    }

    public void onSwipeTop() {
    }

    public void onSwipeBottom() {
    }

    public void onClick(){ 
    }


    // as normal
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        return gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event);
}

} // end OnSwipeTouchListener class

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I'm using Fragments, so using getActivity() for context. This is how I implemented it - and it works.

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myLayout.setOnTouchListener(new OnSwipeTouchListener(getActivity()) {
            public void onSwipeTop() {
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "top", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
            public void onSwipeRight() {
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "right", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
            public void onSwipeLeft() {
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "left", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
            public void onSwipeBottom() {
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "bottom", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }

            public void onClick(){
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });