How do I detect touch input on the Android

Question

Right now all I am trying to do is detect when the screen is pressed and then display a log message to confirm it happened. My code so far is modified off of the CameraPrevi

Answer 1

//on finger touch view visible. On finger up gone

    hintView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
          if(event.getAction()==MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE){
                hintText.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }else if(event.getAction()==MotionEvent.ACTION_UP){
              hintText.setVisibility(View.GONE);

            }

            return true;
        }
    });