Question

Does anyone know why my logs indicate that onTouch(View, MotionEvent) does not get called. I can see that onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) is being called. Both are overridden in Activity which implements View.OnTouchEvent.

Answer 1

AFAIK, Activity does not define onTouch(..), but it does define onTouchEvent(..). So you are overriding the latter, but merely defining the former.

Also, the onTouchEvent(..) is a last resort touch handler – it gets called only if views do not handle it:

onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event)
Called when a touch screen event was not handled by any of the views under it.