How to detect the swipe left or Right in Android?

Question

I have an EditText view in android. On this I want to detect swipe left or right. I am able to get it on an empty space using the code below. But this does not work when I swipe on an EditText. How do I do that? Please let me know If I am doing something wrong. Thank you.

Code Used:

switch (touchevent.getAction()) {     case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:     {         oldTouchValue = touchevent.getX();         break;     }     case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:     {         float currentX = touchevent.getX();         if (oldTouchValue < currentX)         {             // swiped left         }         if (oldTouchValue > currentX )         {             swiped right         }     break;     } } 

Answer 1

Simplest left to right swipe detector:

In your activity class add following attributes:

private float x1,x2; static final int MIN_DISTANCE = 150; 

and override onTouchEvent() method:

@Override public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {          switch(event.getAction())     {       case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:           x1 = event.getX();                                 break;                 case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:           x2 = event.getX();           float deltaX = x2 - x1;           if (Math.abs(deltaX) > MIN_DISTANCE)           {               Toast.makeText(this, "left2right swipe", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show ();           }           else           {               // consider as something else - a screen tap for example           }                              break;         }                 return super.onTouchEvent(event);         }