TextView consumes onTouchEvent

Asked Apr 22 '15 at 17:18

Active Apr 22 '15 at 19:12

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For a custom layout, I need to monitor TouchEvents using the onInterceptTouchEvent method of the ViewGroup. I have the following layout inside a ViewGroup.

<RelativeLayout
   ...
   ...
   ...
    <TextView>
   ...
    <ImageView>
   ...
    <WebView>
   ...
   ...
RelativeLayout>

I am facing problem with monitoring events when the touch is over the TextView. It seems TextView is consuming the event. I do see the first MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN event in onInterceptTouchEvent method, but subsequent MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE & MotionEvent.ACTION_UP are not received.

TextView is only showing static text content. What could be at play here and is there a way to ensure that the TextView does not consume the touch event ?

edited Apr 22 '15 at 19:12

asked Apr 22 '15 at 17:18

user1155172

what do you return in onInterceptTouchEvent? – pskink Apr 22 '15 at 17:34
onInterceptTouchEvent returns false. – user1155172 Apr 22 '15 at 17:48
so if you don't steal the event it will be propagated down to child views – pskink Apr 22 '15 at 17:54
I mentioned, I need to passively monitor the touch events. The problem is that TextView is consuming the event when it is not doing anything with the event. – user1155172 Apr 22 '15 at 18:00
how do you know it's a TextView? – pskink Apr 22 '15 at 18:04
Its only when you touch over the textview, do I face this issue. touching over WebView or ImageView works fine. – user1155172 Apr 22 '15 at 18:11
wait, you have a FrameLayout so all the children are stacked one over another? – pskink Apr 22 '15 at 18:12
@pskink I have updated the question. It is RelativeLayout and not FrameLayout as I wrote earlier. – user1155172 Apr 22 '15 at 19:13
tried to debug TextView.onTouchEvent? maybe its "clickable" or something? – pskink Apr 22 '15 at 19:16

TextView consumes onTouchEvent

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