Check click outside of View

Question

this is my layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!-- Style Theme.Transparent -->
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/linearLayoutVideo"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:weightSum="1"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:clickable="true">

    <VideoView
        android:id="@+id/videoView"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="0.75"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:focusable="true" />

</LinearLayout>

I set a onclicklistener to parent and child view:

linearLayout.setOnClickListener(myOnlyhandler);
videoView.setOnClickListener(myOnlyhandler);

I get only click events for video view. What I want is to know if the user clicks into the video view or outside (parent) and do different actions. How do I get this behavior?

Thanks Tata

Answer 1

A while ago I've implemented an Activity base class that offers such functionality. You simply register a custom OnTouchOutsideViewListener that gets notified once the user touches outside your view after having installed a listener. Simply call setOnTouchOutsideViewListener on your activity instance.

You can paste this code into your existing activity class or create a base activity class that you can reuse throughout your project.

class YourActivity extends Activity {

private View mTouchOutsideView;

private OnTouchOutsideViewListener mOnTouchOutsideViewListener;

/**
 * Sets a listener that is being notified when the user has tapped outside a given view. To remove the listener,
 * call {@link #removeOnTouchOutsideViewListener()}.
 * <p/>
 * This is useful in scenarios where a view is in edit mode and when the user taps outside the edit mode shall be
 * stopped.
 *
 * @param view
 * @param onTouchOutsideViewListener
 */
public void setOnTouchOutsideViewListener(View view, OnTouchOutsideViewListener onTouchOutsideViewListener) {
    mTouchOutsideView = view;
    mOnTouchOutsideViewListener = onTouchOutsideViewListener;
}

public OnTouchOutsideViewListener getOnTouchOutsideViewListener() {
    return mOnTouchOutsideViewListener;
}

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(final MotionEvent ev) {
    if (ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
        // Notify touch outside listener if user tapped outside a given view
        if (mOnTouchOutsideViewListener != null && mTouchOutsideView != null
            && mTouchOutsideView.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE) {
            Rect viewRect = new Rect();
            mTouchOutsideView.getGlobalVisibleRect(viewRect);
            if (!viewRect.contains((int) ev.getRawX(), (int) ev.getRawY())) {
                mOnTouchOutsideViewListener.onTouchOutside(mTouchOutsideView, ev);
            }
        }
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

/**
 * Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a touch event has occurred outside a formerly specified
 * view. See {@link #setOnTouchOutsideViewListener(View, OnTouchOutsideViewListener).}
 */
public interface OnTouchOutsideViewListener {

    /**
     * Called when a touch event has occurred outside a given view.
     *
     * @param view  The view that has not been touched.
     * @param event The MotionEvent object containing full information about the event.
     */
    public void onTouchOutside(View view, MotionEvent event);
}    

}