Fling gesture detection on grid layout
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I want to get fling gesture detection working in my Android application.
What I have is a GridLayout that contains 9 ImageViews. The source can be found here: Romain Guys's Grid Layout.
That file I take is from Romain Guy's Photostream application and has only been slightly adapted.
For the simple click situation I need only set the onClickListener for each ImageView I add to be the main activity which implements View.OnClickListener. It seems infinitely more complicated to implement something that recognizes a fling. I presume this is because it may span views?
If my activity implements
OnGestureListener I don't know how to
set that as the gesture listener for
the Grid or the Image views that I
add.
public class SelectFilterActivity extends Activity implements
View.OnClickListener, OnGestureListener { ...
If my activity implements
OnTouchListener then I have no
onFling method to override (it has
two events as parameters allowing me
to determine if the fling was
noteworthy).
public class SelectFilterActivity extends Activity implements
View.OnClickListener, OnTouchListener { ...
If I make a custom View, like GestureImageView that extends ImageView I don't know how to tell the activity that a fling has occurred from the view. In any case, I tried this and the methods weren't called when I touched the screen.
I really just need a concrete example of this working across views. What, when and how should I attach this listener? I need to be able to detect single clicks also.
// Gesture detection
mGestureDetector = new GestureDetector(this, new GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener() {
public boolean onFling(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float velocityX, float velocityY) {
int dx = (int) (e2.getX() - e1.getX());
// don't accept the fling if it's too short
// as it may conflict with a button push
if (Math.abs(dx) > MAJOR_MOVE && Math.abs(velocityX) > Math.absvelocityY)) {
if (velocityX > 0) {
moveRight();
} else {
moveLeft();
}
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
});
Is it possible to lay a transparent view over the top of my screen to capture flings?
If I choose not to inflate my child image views from XML can I pass the GestureDetector as a constructor parameter to a new subclass of ImageView that I create?
This is the very simple activity that I'm trying to get the fling detection to work for: SelectFilterActivity (Adapted from photostream).
I've been looking at these sources:
Detect Gestures - Tutorial
SDK docs
Calculator Code
Nothing has worked for me so far and I was hoping for some pointers.
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