Saturday, November 26, 2011

Implement OnTouchListener to handle multi-touch event

In this exercise, we will implement our OnTouchListener to handle the following MotionEvent:
ACTION_DOWN: A pressed gesture has started, the motion contains the initial starting location.
ACTION_POINTER_DOWN: A non-primary pointer has gone down.
ACTION_MOVE: A change has happened during a press gesture (between ACTION_DOWN and ACTION_UP).
ACTION_UP: A pressed gesture has finished.
ACTION_POINTER_UP: A non-primary pointer has gone up.

It will be used to implement our pinch zoom in coming exercise.

Implement OnTouchListener to handle multi-touch event

package com.exercise.AndroidTouchPinchZoom;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnTouchListener;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class AndroidTouchPinchZoomActivity extends Activity {

TextView myTouchEvent;
ImageView myImageView;
Bitmap bitmap;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
myTouchEvent = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.touchevent);
myImageView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageview);

bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.ic_launcher);
myImageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

myImageView.setOnTouchListener(MyOnTouchListener);
}

OnTouchListener MyOnTouchListener
= new OnTouchListener(){

@Override
public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

switch(event.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK){
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
//A pressed gesture has started, the motion contains the initial starting location.
myTouchEvent.setText("ACTION_DOWN");
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_DOWN:
//A non-primary pointer has gone down.
myTouchEvent.setText("ACTION_POINTER_DOWN");
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
//A change has happened during a press gesture (between ACTION_DOWN and ACTION_UP).
myTouchEvent.setText("ACTION_MOVE");
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
//A pressed gesture has finished.
myTouchEvent.setText("ACTION_UP");
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_UP:
//A non-primary pointer has gone up.
myTouchEvent.setText("ACTION_POINTER_UP");
break;
}

return true;
}

};
}


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/hello" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/touchevent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/imageview"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:scaleType="center" />

</LinearLayout>


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this helpful tutorial! I included it on my research board. http://www.verious.com/board/Giancarlo-Leonio/android-touch-multi-touch-event-handling/ Hope other developers find it useful too!