Question

Imagine you have a big linearlayout, let’s call it originalLayout that has a gestureDetector set to it.
Then you also inflate a ReLayNewsItem layout and put it into the originalLayout.

LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
RelativeLayout ReLayNewsItem = (RelativeLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.newsitem, null); 
...
originalLayout.addView(ReLayNewsItem);

Now gestureDetector works only on the empty space of the originalLayout and does not work where I have the ReLayNewsItem.

What’s the best way to make ReLayNewsItem not obscure gesture?

P.S. I can not set the same gestureDetector onto ReLayNewsItem.

ReLayNewsItem.setClickable(false); – doesn’t work.

Answer 1

Whenever there is touch/gesture/motion event on the ReLayNewsItem, let your layout consume it like returning mGesture.onTouchEvent(ReLayNewsItem_event) in your touch event method of ReLayNewsItem or layout.dispatchTouchEvent(ReLayNewsItem_event).

Read Event Handler point here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/ui-events.html