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Asked: 2026-05-20T13:20:27+00:00

I wrote a simple MotionEvent exercise in which all I do is log the

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I wrote a simple MotionEvent exercise in which all I do is log the parameters of the event. I do that by implementing OnTouchListener and overriding onTouch() in the main activity.

For one button, I return true at the end of onTouch(). No problems there.

For another button, I return false at the end of onTouch(). This is where it gets interesting. By mere returning ‘false’, a FATAL EXCEPTION is thrown with a tiny hint which I don’t really understand: “recycled twice!”.

What does this mean?

Update: per the suggestion in the comment below, I am adding the details of the exception from LogCat:

03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521): java.lang.RuntimeException: MotionEvent{405215b0 action=0 x=66.0 y=78.0 pressure=1.0 size=0.0} recycled twice!
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at android.view.MotionEvent.recycle(MotionEvent.java:659)
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1880)
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3647)
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
03-08 10:35:14.275: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(521):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
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  1. Editorial Team

    Are you recycling and then passing false?

    The framework will assume that the MotionEvent is still valid if you return false and will do its own processing with it.

    From the docs:

    Recycle the MotionEvent, to be re-used
    by a later caller. After calling this
    function you must not ever touch the
    event again.

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