onTouchListener motion - action up and move - android

I have a button that types something in edit text and I am using on touch listener to do so when I press for audio to get played when left number gets typed.
zero.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
if(motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN){
sp.play(soundIdShot1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1f);
rect = new Rect(zero.getLeft(), zero.getTop(), zero.getRight(), zero.getBottom());
}
if(motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE){
if(!rect.contains(zero.getLeft() + (int) motionEvent.getX(), zero.getTop() + (int) motionEvent.getY())){
}
} if(motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP){
number.append("0");
}
So, what I want to do is when I press, a sound is made and when I remove my finger the number gets typed in edit text field and when I move my finger outside the button's region with swipe nothing happens and nothing gets typed so as you get from the code I made it work with action down and action up but I can't figure it out with action move and how to make it work as I want

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How to implement swipe and hold gesture in Android?

I am trying to implement a "swipe and hold" gesture in Android where the user swipes from a point on the left to another point on the right, then continues to hold at the right point until a server-side action is complete. The idea being that if the user lets go of the hold, the server-side action will be cancelled.
I've been trying to go about this the following way but have encountered an issue when getting to the hold part of the gesture. What I'd like to have happen is that when the user reaches point B on the right, the ACTION_MOVE is somehow converted into an ACTION DOWN for the view on the right and from then on, as long as the event ACTION_DOWN continues the gesture is valid, but if the user lets go or leaves the view area, it is invalid. So the question is, is it possible to chain the ACTION_MOVE from left to right into a "hold" gesture once the user reaches point B on the right? I've tried adding an onTouch to point B after the swipe, but the only way that works is if the user lets go of the swipe, then presses point B again. Will this be possible, or should I go about this a different way, such as drag and drop?
Point A and B as found below are currently image views, but that's more placeholder than anything.
private boolean mValidGesture = false;
Rect outRect = new Rect();
int[] location = new int[2];
private boolean isViewInBounds(View view, int x, int y){
view.getDrawingRect(outRect);
view.getLocationOnScreen(location);
outRect.offset(location[0], location[1]);
return outRect.contains(x, y);
}
...
mPointA.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
int x = (int)event.getRawX();
int y = (int)event.getRawY();
if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE){
if (isViewInBounds(mPointB, x, y)) {
mPointB.dispatchTouchEvent(event);
Log.d(TAG, "onTouch ViewB");
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Swipe complete", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
//This is the part that happens only after you let go of the swipe :(
mPointB.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
switch(event.getAction()) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
mValidGesture = true;
Log.d(TAG, "Gesture: " + String.valueOf(mValidGesture));
return true;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
mValidGesture = false;
Log.d(TAG, "Gesture: " + String.valueOf(mValidGesture));
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
} else if(isViewInBounds(mPointA, x, y)){
Log.d(TAG, "onTouch ViewA");
}
}
// Further touch is not handled
return false;
}
});
You don't need to put touchListener on pointB. Try something like this:
boolean serverActionStarted = false;
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
int x = (int)event.getRawX();
int y = (int)event.getRawY();
if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE){
if (isViewInBounds(mPointB, x, y)) {
// TODO : swipe completed. Start server action
serverActionStarted=true;
}
}else if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP && serverActionStarted){
// TODO : cancel the server action
serverActionStarted = false;
}
So basically, when the user swipes from pointA to pointB, you start the server action and set a boolean serverActionStarted to true. After that, if ACTION_UP event occurs, with the severAction having started, you cancel the server action.

Cancel button press if user moves finger off button

Here is my very standard button onTouchListener:
b.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
if ((event.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK) == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
b.setPressed(true);
}
if ((event.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK) == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
b.setPressed(false);
// Do the button action stuff here
}
return true;
}
});
When the user presses down on the button I set the button to "pressed". When the user lifts the finger I set the button to "not pressed" and then do the stuff the button is supposed to do.
This is all great except for the case where the user presses the button and then, while continuing to keep the finger down, moves the finger outside of the button area. When the finger is lifted the ACTION_UP stuff runs anyway. I would like for this behavior to act as a "cancel" of the button press. So, as soon as the pressed finger moves outside the button area I'd like to b.setPressed(false); and then NOT do the button action stuff when the finger is raised.
I've tried using MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL and MotionEvent.ACTION_OUTSIDE (as suggested by How to detect when finger slides off the ImageButton?) but I must be missing something because they're not working.
From Detect when a user moves off of a button in Android it would appear that this can be done with event.getX() and event.getY(). If getX() is negative you're off the left and if getY() is negative you're off the top, but to figure out if you're off the right or bottom I'll have to figure out the size of the button and then... there has to be a simpler way. Is there?
You had the right answer. Use getWidth() and getHeight() to get the width and height and check if x or y is greater.
ACTION_CANCEL doesn't work because CANCEL is generated when a parent view takes control of the touch events, like a ListView does when scrolling.
ACTION_OUTSIDE only happens in some unusual cases where you request it. It isn't going to be generated for just a normal MOVE or UP.
Since no one posted any code, here is one. A Boolean is used to indicate when the respective actions should be performed.
The MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE event is handled to check if the finger is moved out of the bounds. If yes, b.setPressed(false); is called and the boolean is used to indicate that MotionEvent.ACTION_UP shouldn't be fired the next time, ie to cancel the button click.
And in MotionEvent.ACTION_UP, call b.setPressed(false); only if our boolean doesn't indicate a skip (as mentioned above). And if it does, invert the boolean so that button action stuff would execute the next time.
private Boolean notNow = false;
private Rect rect; // Variable rect to hold the bounds of the view
b.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener(){
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event){
if ((event.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK) == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN){
b.setPressed(true);
rect = new Rect(v.Left, v.Top, v.Right, v.Bottom);
}
if ((event.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK) == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP){
if (!notNow){
b.setPressed(false);
}
else //button press canceled
notNow = false;
}
if((event.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK) == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE){
if(!notNow)
if (!rect.contains(v.getLeft() + (int) event.getX(), v.getTop() + (int) event.getY())){
// finger moved out of bounds
b.setPressed(false);
notNow = true; //cancel button press the next time
}
}
return true;
});

Android MotionEvent getY returns when finger moves out of view

I am making a keyboard app. I want to receive the touch coordinates when the user starts swiping inside the keyboard and goes outside the keyboard view.
I'm overriding the onTouchEvent(MotionEvent me) as shown below:
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent me){
int action = me.getAction();
if(action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN){
}
else if(action == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE){
Log.d("testing", "touchY = " + me.getY());
return true;
}
else if(action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP){
}
else if(action == MotionEvent.ACTION_OUTSIDE){
}
return super.onTouchEvent(me);
}
But once the user goes out of the KeyboardView, me.getY() keeps returning zero even when the user slides his finger vertically. Interestingly me.getX() gives the correct value even when finger moves out of the KeyboardView
My guess is it has something to do with Permissions or Window LayoutParams flags or similar.

Dragging and pressing buttons - android

I have several buttons and I would like to press on one of them and drag through another presing them. Could you tell me which MotionEvent or another functionality should I use. I'm using onTouchListener.
There is an image where you can see what I want to do (first ACTION_DOWN on 1st button and drag through 2nd-7th buttons still pressing the screen) and finally press every white buttons:
Below is my onTouch button code:
button1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
button1.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
switch (event.getAction())
{
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
soundIDs[0] = sound.play(R.raw.sample1);
button1.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.white_clicked);
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
sound.stop(soundIDs[0]);
button1.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.white);
break;
}
return false;
}
});
You are setting the OnTouchListener on just the one button. That's not going to help you know when the pointer moves (e.g. user drags his finger) into another button.
You could set an OnTouchListener on the view that contains the buttons. Then check for ACTION_DOWN, ACTION_MOVE, and ACTION_UP events. You would then have to do some simple hit detection to figure out which button to activate.
Something along the lines of:
getWindow().getDecorView()
.findViewById(android.R.id.content)
.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View arg0, MotionEvent event) {
int action = event.getAction();
if (action != MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN
&& action != MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE
&& action != MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) return false;
Rect hitRect = new Rect();
Button button;
for(int i = 0; i < myButtons.size(); i++) {
button = myButtons.get(i);
button.getHitRect(hitRect);
if (hitRect.contains((int)event.getX(), (int)event.getY())) {
button.setText("hit!");
}
}
return true;
}
});
Where myButtons is an ArrayList of your buttons (piano keys in your example).
Also, you'd probably want to modify this to properly deactivate the currently active button if the user's touch leaves the button, but doesn't hit another button.
I tested the above code on an android device with a layout that has 3 buttons in a row. Dragging your finger across all the buttons causes each button's text to change to "hit!"
Like I said above, you were setting the touch listener on the just one button, that will not work. In this example I have set the touch listener on the entire view for the activity.

MotionEvent.Action_UP fails

I am writing a simple code on ontouchevent..the code is
class MyTouchListener implements View.OnTouchListener{
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if(event.getAction()==MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN)
{ Log.i(TAG, "^^^^^^^^^^^ACTION DOWN^^^^^^^^^^^^");
}
else if(event.getAction()==MotionEvent.ACTION_UP)
{
Log.i(TAG, "^^^^^^^^^^^ACTION UP^^^^^^^^^^^^");
}
}
while i pressed the screen it prints ^^^^^ACTION DOWN^^^^^
But when I released the screen it does not print ^^^^^^ACTION UP^^^^^^....
means MotionEvent.ACTION_UP fails..why this is so??
Try with MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL
#Override
public boolean onTouch(final View view, final MotionEvent motionEvent) {
if (motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
setColorFilter(Color.argb(155, 185, 185, 185));
}
else if (motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP || motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL) {
setColorFilter(Color.argb(0, 185, 185, 185));
}
return false;
}
or add a log in your ontouch method
Log.d("tag", "motionEvent=" + motionEvent);
well ACTION_DOWN is happening just once after that action move should be happening and in the and action up...
but there is one problem , for example if you have a touchable area of 48dip x 48dip and if you touch that area and move you finger away (while dragging) I mean you press and you drag you finger away from the touchable area than action up will not happen !!!
Action up will happen only in case when you take your finer of the screen but you are still in the touchable area. I hope you understand me what I am trying to say.
if you want mouse up to happen that touch the touchable area do not drag you finger away and take you finger away from the screen, you know just like taping then the up event will happen

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