Difference between OnTouch and OnClick Android

which one is better to use?

It really depends on your requirement.

onTouch gives you Motion Event. Thus, you can do a lot of fancy things as it help you separate state of movement. Just to name a few:

• ACTION_UP
• ACTION_DOWN
• ACTION_MOVE

Those are common actions we usually implement to get desire result such as dragging view on screen.

On the other hand, onClick doesn't give you much except which view user interacts. onClick is a complete event comprising of focusing,pressing and releasing. So, you have little control over it. One side up is it is very simple to implement.

do we need to implement both?

It is not necessary unless you want to mess up with your user. If you just want simple click event, go for onClick. If you want more than click, go for onTouch. Doing both will complicate the process.

From User point of view, it is unnoticeable if you implement onTouch carefully to look like onClick.

A "Touch" event is when someone puts their finger on the screen. It gets called throughout the movement of the finger, down, drag, and up. A "Click" need not even come from the screen. It could be someone pressing the enter key.

Use OnTouchListener when you want to receive events from someone's finger on the screen.

Use OnClickListener when you want to detect clicks.