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androidsurfaceview

Reputation: 21

Touch events and gestures in surface view

Can anybody point me to some classes or suggest anything for the following case?

I have SurfaceView which has a background image, on top of which I wish to paint other bitmaps. I would like to support following operations:

on single tap new bitmap is added on top of background,
on double tap bitmap at given position is removed,
on tap&move (like drag&drop) bitmap is moving,
on press and move surface view is scrolling,
on pinch out/pinch in surface view is scaling accordingly.

Is this doable only with GestureRezognizer? If not, how to handle all those cases?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5743

Answers (1)

Jack Stafford

Reputation: 86

To handle touch input, override onTouchEvent in your class that extends SurfaceView to handle a MotionEvent. Here is a sample code that gets the screen position when a user first touches the screen.

@Override    
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
        touchX = event.getX();
        touchY = event.getY();
    }
    return true;
}

More information about the MotionEvent object can be found on the Android Developers website.

Upvotes: 2

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