Romain, thanks for pointing out onInterceptTouchEvent()! I'll take a look at that method ASAP.
As to the "it was meant to be part of the UI design", I really wonder why practically none of the apps shipped with Android use gestures then (I mean, apart from scrolling up or down of course)? I can only think of the home app right now. In contrast, the iPhone makes very consistent use of flings to navigate back and forth between app screens. We tried to implement this for our app, but as I said, it wasn't actually an easy thing to do, because, for example, Android doesn't actually define what a left or right fling is (in terms of velocity and so forth). So, another app may have a different understanding of this, and react differently to left and right flings (in terms of when to interpret it as such, not in terms of the resulting action, which of course may be different), giving navigation in the platform an inconsistent feel. That's what I meant with messy and fragile. Cheers, Matthias On Mar 29, 8:16 pm, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote: > > Doesn't look like fling support as known from the iPhone was ever > > meant to be part of Android's UI design. Making your app react to > > flings (or even detect them properly) is a messy and fragile procedure > > in Android. > > It was meant to be part of the UI design. And it's not messy nor > fragile, you just need to use onInterceptTouchEvent(). > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > romain...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
