Question

I already asked this question but at that time I tought that the refresh time between to onTouch Events is my problem Android onTouch refresh rate . But it isn’t. So again my problem:
I need a Sprite moving left/right/up while my finger is touching the display. So my onTouchEvent return true. But this works only if my finger swipes a bit or if the touchscreen drivers are so worse that it jitters so much what is detected as finger movement.
I tought of a solution with Threads. So I start a Thread which is moving the player, which is interrupted when the finger is lifted. But maybe there is a better way to do that?

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent me) {
    ...
if (me.getY() < getHeight() / 2) {
    return doAction(0);
} else if (me.getX() >= getWidth() / 2)
    return doAction(2);
else if (me.getX() < getWidth() / 2)
    return doAction(1);
//doAction returns TRUE
...

}

Answer 1

ok I managed it with Threads. Here is a part of doAction.

if (event == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
            movePlayer = new Thread() {
                public void run() {
                    while (!this.isInterrupted()) {
                        if (main.player.x > 5
                                && now.getLevel()[playerXsc][playerYsc] == Level.FLAG_SKY
                                && now.getLevel()[playerXsc][playerY2sc] == Level.FLAG_SKY) {
                            main.player.x -= 4;
                        } else if (main.player.x <= 5 && now instanceof L9)
                            main.player.x = aspectX * 19;
                        try {
                            Thread.sleep(5);
                        } catch (InterruptedException e) { break; }
                    }
                }
            };
            movePlayer.start();
        } else if (event == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
            Log.e("ui", "mpt interrupt");
            movePlayer.interrupt();
        }