Detect every touch on the screen

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I want to detect in my app the touch of the user on the screen and reset some timer in this case. I found out that I can use onTouchEvent but it works only when I press free space without any button,.... I don't want to register touchEventListener on every View in my project. Is there some other way how to do it?

Thanks! This is the easiest solution. I overrode this method in AbstractActivity and it works properly. — AdaMoOo, Jun 07 '13 at 07:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '13 at 13:29

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Indeed, first you must override this method in your activity:

public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event);

Then, you have to disable action for your clickable elements.

answered Jun 06 '13 at 13:29

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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You should implement that OnTouchListener for the parent view and make child views non-clickable using setClickable(false)...

If that doesn't work you probably need to follow the method suggested in this answer

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered Jun 06 '13 at 13:28

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pskink · Answer 3 · 2013-06-06T14:05:50.307

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all you have to do is to override onInterceptTouchEvent (MotionEvent ev) method in your top level container view or you can override Activity.onUserInteraction but it also includes key and trackball actions

edited Jun 06 '13 at 14:05

answered Jun 06 '13 at 13:56

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Detect every touch on the screen

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