HorizontalScrollView within ScrollView Touch Handling
Update: I figured this out. On my ScrollView, I needed to override the onInterceptTouchEvent method to only intercept the touch event if the Y motion is > the X motion. It seems like the default behavior of a ScrollView is to intercept the touch event whenever there is ANY Y motion. So with the fix, the ScrollView will only intercept the event if the user is deliberately scrolling in the Y direction and in that case pass off the ACTION_CANCEL to the children.
Here is the code for my Scroll View class that contains the HorizontalScrollView:
public class CustomScrollView extends ScrollView {
private GestureDetector mGestureDetector;
public CustomScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
mGestureDetector = new GestureDetector(context, new YScrollDetector());
setFadingEdgeLength(0);
}
@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(ev) && mGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(ev);
}
// Return false if we're scrolling in the x direction
class YScrollDetector extends SimpleOnGestureListener {
@Override
public boolean onScroll(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX, float distanceY) {
return Math.abs(distanceY) > Math.abs(distanceX);
}
}
}
Thank you Joel for giving me a clue on how to resolve this problem.
I have simplified the code(without need for a GestureDetector) to achieve the same effect:
public class VerticalScrollView extends ScrollView {
private float xDistance, yDistance, lastX, lastY;
public VerticalScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
switch (ev.getAction()) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
xDistance = yDistance = 0f;
lastX = ev.getX();
lastY = ev.getY();
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
final float curX = ev.getX();
final float curY = ev.getY();
xDistance += Math.abs(curX - lastX);
yDistance += Math.abs(curY - lastY);
lastX = curX;
lastY = curY;
if(xDistance > yDistance)
return false;
}
return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(ev);
}
}