Android seekbar solution

Question

Is it possible to have the seekbar move only when the thumb is moved. Right now the seekbar moves even on finger touch in the progressdrawable. How do we disable the movemen

Answer 1

Here's a Kotlin version of awy's answer with the caveat that absolutely no movement happens when you tap outside the drawable. The whole point is that you don't want users to be able to skip.

import android.content.Context
import android.util.AttributeSet
import android.view.MotionEvent
import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatSeekBar

class NoSkipSeekBar @JvmOverloads constructor(
    context: Context,
    attrs: AttributeSet? = null,
    defStyle: Int = 0
) : AppCompatSeekBar(context, attrs, defStyle) {

    private var isDragging = false

    private fun isWithinThumb(event: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        return thumb.bounds.contains(event.x.toInt(), event.y.toInt())
    }

    override fun onTouchEvent(event: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        if (!isEnabled || thumb == null) return super.onTouchEvent(event)

        when (event.action) {
            MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN -> {
                if (isWithinThumb(event)) {
                    isDragging = true
                    return super.onTouchEvent(event)
                } else {
                    return true
                }
            }
            MotionEvent.ACTION_UP -> {
                isDragging = false

                return when {
                    isWithinThumb(event) -> super.onTouchEvent(event)
                    else -> true
                }
            }
            MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE -> if (!isDragging) return true
            MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL -> isDragging = false
        }
        return super.onTouchEvent(event)
    }
}