Android – Gesture Detection (Swipe up/down) on particular view

Do this in your onCreate method.

findViewById(R.id.tvOne).setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() { 
            @Override
           public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event){
                return gestureScanner.onTouchEvent(event);
           }
  });

You can set OnTouchListeners to individual TextViews.

findViewById(R.id.tvOne).setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
         // Your code here
    }
}

A suggestion

If you don’t want to detect all gesture,try this class:
SimpleGestureListener created by myself.

Now here are some snippets for this class’s usage.

Usage

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private static final String TAG = "MainActivity";
    private GestureDetector mDetector;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        SimpleGestureListener simpleGestureListener = new SimpleGestureListener();
        simpleGestureListener.setListener(new SimpleGestureListener.Listener() {
            @Override
            public void onScrollHorizontal(float dx) {
                Log.i(TAG,"horizontal = " +dx);
            }

            @Override
            public void onScrollVertical(float dy) {
                Log.i(TAG,"vertical = " +dy);
            }
        });
        mDetector = new GestureDetector(this, simpleGestureListener);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        mDetector.onTouchEvent(event);
        return super.onTouchEvent(event);
    }
}

It can be used for detecting swiping gesture :

  • left or right
  • up or down

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