Detect end of fling on ScrollView

Question

I've overridden ScrollView to pass MotionEvents to a GestureDetector to detect fling events on the ScrollView. I need to be able to detect when the scrolling stops. This doesn't coincide with the MotionEvent.ACTION_UP event because this usually happens at the start of a fling gesture, which is followed by a flurry of onScrollChanged() calls on the ScrollView.

So basically what we are dealing with here is the following events:

1. onFling
2. onScrollChanged, onScrollChanged, onScrollChanged, ... , onScrollChanged

There's no callback for when the onScrollChanged events are done firing. I was thinking of posting a message to the event queue using a Handler during onFling and waiting for the Runnable to execute to signal the end of the fling, unfortunately it fires after the first onScrollChanged call.

Any other ideas?

Answer 1

I've combined a few of the answers from here to construct a working listener that resembles the way AbsListView does it. It's essentially what you describe, and it works well in my testing.

Note: you can simply override ScrollView.fling(int velocityY) rather than use your own GestureDetector.

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.ScrollView;

public class CustomScrollView extends ScrollView {

    private static final int DELAY_MILLIS = 100;

    public interface OnFlingListener {
        public void onFlingStarted();
        public void onFlingStopped();
    }

    private OnFlingListener mFlingListener;
    private Runnable mScrollChecker;
    private int mPreviousPosition;

    public CustomScrollView(Context context) {
        this(context, null, 0);
    }

    public CustomScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, 0);
    }

    public CustomScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);

        mScrollChecker = new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                int position = getScrollY();
                if (mPreviousPosition - position == 0) {
                    mFlingListener.onFlingStopped();
                    removeCallbacks(mScrollChecker);
                } else {
                    mPreviousPosition = getScrollY();
                    postDelayed(mScrollChecker, DELAY_MILLIS);
                }
            }
        };
    }

    @Override
    public void fling(int velocityY) {
        super.fling(velocityY);

        if (mFlingListener != null) {
            mFlingListener.onFlingStarted();
            post(mScrollChecker);
        }
    }

    public OnFlingListener getOnFlingListener() {
        return mFlingListener;
    }

    public void setOnFlingListener(OnFlingListener mOnFlingListener) {
        this.mFlingListener = mOnFlingListener;
    }

}