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GridView eats my onTouch events and starts "scrolling"

I am creating an android app in which I need to track the pointer on a couple of elements that are inside a GridView. The problem is that if the pointer moves a little bit up or down, the GridView enters some kind of scrolling mode (even if it fits easily inside the screen), so the events do not reach the child views anymore. Is there anything I can do to prevent this behaviour and keep tracking the pointer inside those children?
So to clarify: the pointer tracking works neatly, until the vertical difference between starting and current position becomes to large. At that moment, no touch event reaches my child elements anymore, and the gridView starts scrolling if it does not fit inside the screen.

I found a solution at another StackOverflow post. Simply put, the solution is to create a class that extends the GridView and overrides the onInterceptTouchEvent method, which must return false when scrolling (or any other form of interception) has to be prohibited.

Determine if the list view is about to stop scrolling?

I need to do some animations in a listview after it is flinged and is about to stop.I have a listview which is going to be of a fixed height(well dont ask me why), and whenever the scroll stops , it should have three elements visible. What i do now is detect when the list reaches SCROLL_STATE_IDLE and if i have two elements visible at that time, i use smoothScrollToPosition and reach a state of 3 items visible and it works fine, but what i would like to do is detect when the scroll is about to stop and stop the scroll programatically when there are three items visible. Is that even possible... Any code snippets, pseudo code, algo would help me.

You can set an OnScrollListener, and then store the value from absListView.getScrollY() each sample and compare it the previous sample to compute the velocity of the scroll. Once that drops below a threshold you define, you can take over scrolling.

android drag and drop gridview ordering

I created a drag and drop gridview (using an OnDragListener). Grid items can be dropped upon one another. However, I also want to be able to re-order them. I implemented this, but there is a major issue left standing: the user control part.
When I drag around my shadow object I want the items to make space for my dragged object while I am dragging it around. I already implemented the moving of the other items, but I cannot seem to figure out a way to find out IF/WHEN I am in between two items. I get drag events when I hoover ABOVE an item, but not in between then. The gridview does not get any onTouchEvent calls when I am dragging, not even onInterceptTouchEvent calls.
Does anyone know a way in which I can implement this?
I already tried:
Implementing onTouchEvent and onInterceptTouchEvent in the gridview. Problem:
The gridview does not get any onTouchEvent calls when I am dragging an item, not even onInterceptTouchEvent calls.
Setting another draglistener on the whole gridview. Problem: ACTION_DRAG_LOCATION gets only called a few times, not on every move (location change), as is documented (!!).

I removed the padding between the grid items and gave the items themselfes some extra size, so that you are never inbetween items, but also on the side of one of the items. I detect when I'm at the side of an item and move the items accordingly to make space for my dragged item.

Vertical smooth scrolling of values in a text view

I have a text view where in i have to keep ages between 1-99. I also have two buttons ^ and v(i mean up and down arrows) on clicking them the values of the age should smoothly scroll to next or previous value.
I have been trying different ways but couldnt achieve smooth scrolling. Can anyone please give me any idea of how to achieve the task.

I think the easiest way is to simply put the TextView within a ScrollView, and let the arrows interact with the ScrollView, by using things like the fling method and playing around with the velocity parameter to suit your needs.

Use the animation framework.
When pressing down, start the 'down'-animation.
When pressing up, start the 'up'-animation.
Read more about animation here: http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=343

View animation is not much matured and hence i am noy sure if that can be used for moving the views.
Please find the description below:
Another disadvantage of the view
animation system is that it only
modified where the View was drawn, and
not the actual View itself. For
instance, if you animated a button to
move across the screen, the button
draws correctly, but the actual
location where you can click the
button does not change, so you have to
implement your own logic to handle
this.
Source
To scroll smoothly you can try using the scroller component.
Reference
What you would need to do is pass the duration of the scroll in the constructor and then use the property
setFinalY(int newY)
to increment the counter position by 1 unit (equal to the height of the item).
Please let me know if that helps!

Android: Next/Previous fling that sticks to the finger similar to Home Screen

I want to give my app a nice touch by allowing users to slide the page left or right instead of just using next/previous buttons (similar to the home screen).
What is the best way to do that? I assume I would have to override one of the Activity.on... methods and that I would also have to put my page's main View in a ViewGroup that allows me to shift pages left and right.

ViewFlipper is your friend!
Here you can see a nice video of the ViewFlipper in action and also a very good tutorial:
http://www.inter-fuser.com/2009/07/android-transistions-slide-in-and-slide.html

The solution is even easier these days with the release of Compatibility Package r3. You can download here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html
It includes
ViewPager: A ViewGroup that manages the layout for the child views, which the user can swipe between.
PagerAdapter: An adapter that populates the ViewPager with the views that represent each page.
and Fragment versions of those, if you are that way inclined.
The pager code is compatible back to API version 4 (1.6), and I just implemented a dynamically generated viewPager coming off a dynamically generated ListView in about 2 hours. I'm a novice, so this is definitely the preferred path.
There is an example app here: http://geekyouup.blogspot.com/2011/07/viewpager-example-from-paug.html

If one wants to flip between two activities perhaps one can apply this animated transition:
Intent intent = new Intent(FirstActivity.this, SecondActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
finish();
//transition using XML view animations
overridePendingTransition(R.anim.slideinfromright, R.anim.slideouttoleft);

Use GestureDetector to detect if the touch event is a scroll.
If the first event to the first call to onScroll is ACTION_DOWN then you should see if it was a dominantly horizontal scroll. If so then your scroll is started and you should shift the absolute position of the view that fills the page.
For non deprecated absolute positioning, see my answer here Android: Alternative to AbsoluteLayout (I really do need absolute positioning)
You will want to be cautions of whether you return true to consume the touch events or not.
GestureDetector does not have a callback for scrolling having stopped. You will have to check if there was an ACTION_UP before you call GestureDetector.onTouchEvent and if there was an action up and you did have an unfinished scroll then you should set the absolute position to the destination location and use a TranslateAnimation to make it look nice moving from current to destination.
Edit:
GestureDetector did not work well at all if the child views also wanted to respond to touch events. I ended up creating a subclass of FrameLayout (one of the most basic layouts and the closest thing to a non intrusive parent view) and overriding dispatchTouchEvent. I just took all the events and did the detection myself.

cant we use Gallery view here?? with the adapter the whole page can be inflated inside gallery view adapter getView() and it will manage the left right scrolling perfectly.