how to disable viewpager adapter on touching specific views?

Question

I have a viewpager which switches between tabs when swiping left/right.In my second tab, i have some custom views which have listeners for pinching and dragging but when i try to pinch or drag, the viewpager starts to swipe the page.

A solution comes to my mind is to disable swiping when touching those specific views and only swipe when touching outside those views.Is this possible?

Updated: @Asok kindly provided the solution. But then updated the code which wouldnt work in my case so i post the previous piece of code which worked for me:

public class CustomViewPager extends ViewPager { private boolean swipeable = true;  public CustomViewPager(Context context) {     super(context); }  public CustomViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {     super(context, attrs); }  // Call this method in your motion events when you want to disable or enable // It should work as desired. public void setSwipeable(boolean swipeable) {     this.swipeable = swipeable; }  @Override public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent arg0) {     return (this.swipeable) ? super.onInterceptTouchEvent(arg0) : false; } 

Lets suppose i have a draggable view and i need to disable swipping when dragging start and re enable when dragging finished so in TouchEvent of my so called view:

    @Override public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {     switch(event.getAction()) {     case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN: //disable swiping when the button is touched ((ActivityOriginal) getActivity()).setSwipeable(false); //the rest of the code...         break;     case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:          break;     case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP: //re enable swipping when the touch is stopped //the rest of the code... ((ActivityOriginal) getActivity()).setSwipeable(true);         break;     }     return true; } 

Answer 1

This first thing that comes to mind for me is to have a custom ViewPager in which, when your touch listeners get notified of a specific event you could set the swipeable boolean in ViewPager to false and set it back to true whichever way best fits your application.

public class CustomViewPager extends ViewPager {     private boolean swipeable = true;      public CustomViewPager(Context context) {         super(context);     }      public CustomViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {         super(context, attrs);     }      // Call this method in your motion events when you want to disable or enable     // It should work as desired.     public void setSwipeable(boolean swipeable) {         this.swipeable = swipeable;     }      @Override     public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent arg0) {         return (this.swipeable) ? super.onInterceptTouchEvent(arg0) : false;      }  } 

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Make sure to change your layout file to show:

<com.your.package.CustomViewPager .. /> 

Instead of:

<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager .. /> 

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Edit 2

Here is my setup (Working with the above CustomViewPager):

CustomViewPager mViewPager;  @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);     setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);      // Set up the action bar.     final ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();     actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);      // Create the adapter that will return a fragment for each of the three     // primary sections of the app.     mSectionsPagerAdapter = new SectionsPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());      // Set up the CustomViewPager with the sections adapter.     mViewPager = (CustomViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);     mViewPager.setAdapter(mSectionsPagerAdapter);     mViewPager.setOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.SimpleOnPageChangeListener() {         @Override         public void onPageSelected(int position) {             actionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(position);         }     });      // For each of the sections in the app, add a tab to the action bar.     for (int i = 0; i < mSectionsPagerAdapter.getCount(); i++) {         actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab()                 .setText(mSectionsPagerAdapter.getPageTitle(i))                 .setTabListener(this));     }  }  public void swipeOn(View v) {     mViewPager.setSwipeable(true); }  public void swipeOff(View v) {     mViewPager.setSwipeable(false); } 

The above shown onCreate is in my MainActivity class which extends FragmentActivity and implements ActionBar.TabListener