Long press in GestureDetector also fires on tap

Question

I tried implementing code from this question: Detecting a long press with Android, but it always detects a long press, if even I just tap it. My code is as follows (I extend

Answer 1

You need to override onDown and make it return true. The following code worked for me:

class SimpleGestureListener extends GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener {

    @Override
    public boolean onDown(MotionEvent event) {
      // triggers first for both single tap and long press
      return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onSingleTapUp(MotionEvent event) {
      // triggers after onDown only for single tap
      return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onLongPress(MotionEvent event) {
      // triggers after onDown only for long press
      super.onLongPress(event);
    }
}