Android: How to prevent any touch events from being passed from a view to the one underneath it?

Question

Specifically using the code below, is there a way to modify it so that the activity under this newly created view does not receive any gestures?

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Answer 1

I'm a little late to the party but I don't think the accepted solution is very great. Here is a static method that accepts any number of views and disables this event bubbling. This has worked for me 100% of the time for API 17+ (lower untested)

public static void disableEventBubbling(View... views){
    for(View view : views){
        if(view != null){
            view.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener(){
               @Override
                public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event){
                    view.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true);
                    return false;
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

You can add a case for whatever kind of event you want, or you could get rid of the switch and make the default case the only line inside the touch listener.