Question

My activity implements OnTouchListener and it have one ListView inside it.
When user touch over ListView, I need to dispatch ClickEvent to ListView that has OnItemClickListener handler.

How can I do this?

edit:

Each list item of listView have onTouchEvent handler.
ListView have onItemClick handler.

  @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
        float actionUpX;

        switch(event.getAction()){

        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
            actionDownX = event.getX();
            break;

        case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
            actionUpX = event.getX();

            mFlipper = (ViewFlipper) view.findViewById(R.id.view_listitem_flipper);


            if(actionDownX < actionUpX){
                // |--->
                mFlipper.showNext();                
            } else if(actionDownX > actionUpX){
                // <---|
                mFlipper.showPrevious();
            } else {
                    //Click
                    //Need to dispatch itemClickEvent to ListView

                    //view.performClick();  this line causes StackOverflowException 
                    }
            break;
        }
        return true;
    }

@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position,
        long id) {
    //Need do an action using position of view

}

My list item is a ViewFlipper, when user touch and drag item, ViewFlipper need perform
showNext or ShowPrevious and an single click have to handled by onItemClick

Answer 1

If you want to be able to click on an item in the list and have something happen you need to do something like the following:

public class YourClass extends ListActivity {
    //Your Variables
    ArrayList<Type> yourlist;
    YourAdapterClass adapter;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        yourlist = new ArrayList<Type>();
        this.adapter = new YourAdapterClass(this, R.layout.row, yourlist);
        setListAdapter(this.adapter);

        //you might be able to see if the below works instead of overriding 
        //the OnListItemClickListener farther below
        ListView lv = getListView();

        lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                                    int position, long id) {
                Log.i("testy", "I Clicked on Row " + position + " and it worked!");
             }
         });
    }

    @Override
    /**
     * When the user selects an item in the list, do an action
     * @param ListView l
     * @param View v
     * @param int position
     * @param long id
     */
    protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
        super.onListItemClick(l, v, position, id);

        final int index = position;

        //You can add whatever you want to happen when you click here

        Log.i("testy", "I Clicked on Row " + index + " and this overriding worked!");

    }

//other methods can go here for you list


}

You will also need an adapter class (in my example my adapter class is called YourAdapterClass) You can either make this a private class in your ListActivty or a completely new class in its own Java file like the following:

public class YourAdapterClass extends ArrayAdapter {
        protected ArrayList items;

        public YourAdapterClass(Context context, int textViewResourceId, ArrayList items) {
            super(context, textViewResourceId, items);
            this.items = items;
        }

        @Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            View v = convertView;

            if(v == null) {
                LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
                v = vi.inflate(R.layout.row, null);
            }

          //do stuff to your list view row if it is a custom row with multiple 
          //components like text views, image views etc.

            return v;


       }
}

Usually this way is used for custom ListViews (lists with custom made rows, but you can use it for a normal view as well)

Hope this helps you at least get started in the right direction.

Good Luck.

(this was an answer I basically gave for another thread similar to this one Custom ListVIew and onclick)