The best I could find on this particular issue (although I do not use a Gallery): ScrollView and Gallery interfering - doesn\'t really give a specific answer though. And my
In looking to solve a similar issue I am having, I came across this tid-bit:
eventsInterceptionEnabled: when set to true, this property tells the overlay to steal the events from its children as soon as it knows the user is really drawing a gesture. This is useful when there's a scrollable view under the overlay, to avoid scrolling the underlying child as the user draws his gesture
From the Android Dev site, it talks about using this attribute in the
Root in your layout file.