How to check if user is interacting with phone?

Question

Is possible to know if user is currently interacting with a phone (touching the screen), on ANY activity (including launcher) on android device?

I would like to check in my app if any interaction was made in the last few seconds.

Yes, but this is probably the method who is called (and I have control over) in MY activity. I would like to know interaction on any activity on the device. Or when last touch down was made on the device. — rootpanthera, Dec 13 '15 at 18:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

To detect a touch anywhere on your app you can simply add a onTouchListener to the main, outermost layout of you app.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:id="@+id/myLayout">
 <!- Your other view->
</Relativelayout>

If suppose this is your Xml file then in the activity java file you can do:

 RelativeLayout l = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.mylayout);
 l.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        Log.d("screen","touched");
      //do stuff.

    }

 });

And if you want not just your app but anywhere and anytime to detect the touch no mater what app user is using. Then for that you have to create a service which will detect and keep recording all the touches. For more help check out this link

Detecting user activity in android

This can't be the solution to link a listener to each and every views.... — narancs, Jul 25 '17 at 12:56

How to check if user is interacting with phone?

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