Android - Detect touch event on a parent which is full of children

Question

Suppose I have a parent view (for example a LinearLayout) which accommodate some child view(for example Button) that occupy whole space of their parent space, What I want is I want to detect swipe event on the parent. For this purpose I choose Touch event for the parent, But when I touch the parent(that is full of children) the onTouch handler does not trigger at all. I think this is because of its children.
Can anyone please point me out how can I achieve my purpose ? Thanks

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4139288/android-how-to-handle-right-to-left-swipe-gestures — Triode, Jan 28 '14 at 08:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 11 '16 at 05:23

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Override the onInterceptTouchEvent() method of the parent view and let it return true. You can refer to this for more information

answered May 11 '16 at 05:23

Lingkun Kong

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '14 at 08:57

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Set touchfocus of child view false. Then parent view Touch event calls.

 android:focusable="false"
 android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

answered Jan 28 '14 at 08:57

Gaurav Berry

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Android - Detect touch event on a parent which is full of children

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