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Asked: 2026-06-01T08:38:23+00:00

I’m a novice Android monkey and I’ve hit a snag trying to implement a

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I’m a novice Android monkey and I’ve hit a snag trying to implement a feature on my app. What I want to do is have my users be able to long click an overlay item (it’s a bus stop) and add that marker (stop number and address) to their favorites tab. The problem is… how do I listen for and handle a long click(tap) on an overlay item??

Currently I’m @overriding the onTap function in my Overlay class to handle regular taps, but I don’t see an onLongTap function to override in the documentation… Can anyone set me along the right path? Am I missing something obvious here? Thanks for reading this

P.S. This is my first SO question 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    You probably want to override onTouchEvent(MotionEvent, MapView) for more complex user interactions. For a ‘long’ tap, you should start some sort of timer that will indicate how long the user has been pressing on a specific Overlay item. Once a certain threshold is reached – I believe the default delay for a ‘long’ press is roughly 1500 ms – you then execute the relevant code.

    Alternatively, you could take a look at including the mapview-overlay-manager project, which, from the reads of it, should offer exactly what your looking for (and then some):

    OnOverlayGestureListener

    Simplified OnGestureListener. A ManagedOverlayer uses its own build-in GestureDetector that fires
    events like:

    • onSingleTap(MotionEvent, ManagedOverlay, GeoPoint, OverlayItem)
    • onDoubleTap(MotionEvent, ManagedOverlay, GeoPoint, OverlayItem)
    • onLongPress(MotionEvent, ManagedOverlay, GeoPoint, OverlayItem)
    • onZoom(ZoomEvent, ManagedOverlay) onScrolled(…)
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