DrawerLayout prevents call of MainActivity.onTouchEvent()

Question

I have an app that overrides the onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) of the MainActivity to determine Two-Finger-Swipe and Pich-Open/Pinch-Close. Everything works fine until I add the DrawerLayout to the app (like it's described in Creating a Navigation Drawer). Problem: the DrawerLayout prevents the call of onTouchEvent() in the MainActivity.

I started to write a CustomDrawerLayout, and try to override the DrawerLayout methods onInterceptTouch() and onTouchEvent().

The only way (I found) to transmit the TouchEvent to the MainActivity:

    // onTouchEvent of CustomDrawerLayout 
    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev){
        // super.onTouchEvent(ev); // prevent transmission of TouchEvent
        return false;
    }

The problem here is that the Drawer doesn't open correctly. The Drawer stucks like described in this post: DrawerLayout getting stuck on swipe.

Is it possible to transmit the TouchEvent to MainActivity to handle the MultiTouchDetection? Or do I have to handle this in CustomDrawerLayout?

UPDATE 1

First I have to say that the Drawer only stucks, if I swipe from the left edge. By clicking on the DrawerIcon in the ActionBar the Drawer works fine. Transmission of TouchEvent works with following code. But only if the Drawer is opend! Otherwise Activity.onTouchEvent isn't called!

    // onTouchEvent of CustomDrawerLayout 
    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev){
        // super.onTouchEvent(ev); // still prevents transmission of TouchEvent
        activity.onTouchEvent(ev);
        return true;
    }

By opening the Drawer with a swipe from the edge (-> Drawer stucks) i get a really strange behaviour :

• just DrawerIcon can close "stucked Drawer" (-> I wouldn't expect something different because I override the CustomDrawerLayout.onTouchEvent)
• if I close the stucked Drawer by DrawersIcon the CustomDrawerLayout.onTouchEvent is still called

Thats strange! Why Activity.onTouchEvent() isn't called? And how can I prevent the stucked Drawer?

UPDATE 2

Now i override the CustomDrawerLayout.onInterceptTouch():

@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev){
        return true;
}

This has the effect that the Drawer can't be opened by a swipe from the edge -> only the DrawersIcon can open and close the Drawer. But now the TouchEvent is always transmitted to the Activity (-> that works like expected).

But what I really want is to have the possibilty to open the Drawer by a swipe from the edge AND to have my MultiGestureDetector. Is this possible?

Ardath

From your CustomDrawerLayout's onTouchEvent returning true, why don't you try calling activity.onTouchEvent(ev); ? – Obtrusive

Cool! The TouchEvent is transmitted to the Activity. But the Drawer still stucks...any idea? – Ardath

are you returning true in your CustomDrawerLayout's onTouchEvent ? – Obtrusive

I tested your advice a little bit more in detail and updated my question. Thanks :) – Ardath

Tried a second solution (update 2) that works but it isn't 100% what I want... – Ardath

Answer 1

A bit of a late update, but after having this issue for a couple of days, the solution that worked best for me was creating a CustomDrawerLayout. Then, casting the Context from the constructor as an Activity, called the Activity onTouchEvent from onInterceptTouchEvent.

@Override public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent( MotionEvent ev )
{
    getActivity().onTouchEvent( ev );
    return super.onInterceptTouchEvent( ev );
}

I find the code to be a lame hack... but works for me. Good luck!

Grandparent

Answer 2

I was having some issues recognizing gestures for items within the navigation drawer itself and came across requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent. What I found was that I was getting the MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN, but nothing after that because the NavigationDrawer was intercepting the touches. The key would be to call requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true) on the down event in your touch handler in the activity so that you can handle the touch without it being intercepted.

This presentation was also extremely useful when trying to figure out the touch system in Android.

Quiberon

Answer 3

In case you or anyone else still need it, here is my implementation.
Works perfectly with the exception of the "edge" not being taken from android code but as a constant (which I set).

Please view this link:
Android Navigation Drawer Doesn't Pass onTouchEvent to Activity

Neomaneomah