how to disable fling in android gallery

Question

I have a custom gallery in my app and after doing some testing I\'ve decided that I don\'t want the gallery to navigate with finger swipes. I\'ve set up a left and right bu

Answer 1

Oh, got it!

In my custom gallery class:

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    return false;

}

Figured that put from the gallery source code posted here: http://www.devdaily.com/java/jwarehouse/android/core/java/android/widget/Gallery.java.shtml

:)

Answer 2

A better approach (as described here) is to override the fling method in your custom gallery class:

@Override
public boolean onFling(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float velocityX,
                       float velocityY) {        
    return false;
}