Question

I saw an app where if you press the button it would play a ring tone, then if you kept it down, a message boxed came up asking you if you wish to save the sound file. I would like to have my app detect if a button was pressed down for like a couple seconds.

I cannot figure out how to detect if a button was held down for a long time. I tried Googling it, but came up empty.

Answer 1

Apparently you have not read about onLongClickListener huh?

Read the following links:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnLongClickListener.html

example code:

buttonPlay.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            //Do something when clicked normally.
        }
    });

    buttonPlay.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
            //Offer additional options when the view is held. 
            return true;
        }
    });

Also, you may call registerForContextMenu() instead and pass the View you want to set the listener to. Reference

Sample code:

registerForContextMenu(textView);//Registering the TextView textview for longclicks

You must write the code to inflate the context menu:

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,
        ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
    super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.your_context_menu, menu);
    }       
}   

Where the id your_context_menu must be an .xml file created under the Res/Menu/ folder on your project.

Once the menu is inflated, you must also write the code to respond to options being selected.

@Override
public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    Intent broadcast = new Intent();
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.menu_option_one:          
    //do something
    return true;
    default:
        return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
    }
}