Method onTouchEvent not being called

Question

I\'m having a problem that my method

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    return gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event);
}
         


        

Answer 1

ok, now i'm sure that the problem is that scrollview handle touches, so anyway to ignore that and yet be the scrolling avaiable?

Yes that's the problem, when android handles touch events each event goes from child to parent, so first it's handled by ViewFlipper, but then it goes to ScrollView. So you have to implement getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true) (see ViewParent class) in order to make all touch events handled by ViewFlipper, and then simply detect the direction of gesture if horizontal then flip view if not then pass touch event to ScrollView or just scroll ScrollView programmatically

EDIT: Also you can implement OnTouchListener in your ViewFlipper and in this listener trigger GestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event), but this also requires requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent of your parent view set to true