
How to Drag a View in Android
In this example we will see how to drag and ImageView in android on touch drag event.
January 16, 2014 · 4 min read
In this example we will see how to drag and ImageView in android on touch drag event.
Creating View layout
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/root"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:padding="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" >
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="124dp"
android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />
</RelativeLayout>Activity Java code
package com.javatechig;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements View.OnTouchListener {
private ImageView mImageView;
private ViewGroup mRrootLayout;
private int _xDelta;
private int _yDelta;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
mRrootLayout = (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.root);
mImageView = (ImageView) mRrootLayout.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(150, 150);
mImageView.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);
mImageView.setOnTouchListener(this);
}
public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
final int X = (int) event.getRawX();
final int Y = (int) event.getRawY();
switch (event.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lParams = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) view.getLayoutParams();
_xDelta = X - lParams.leftMargin;
_yDelta = Y - lParams.topMargin;
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_DOWN:
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_UP:
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) view
.getLayoutParams();
layoutParams.leftMargin = X - _xDelta;
layoutParams.topMargin = Y - _yDelta;
layoutParams.rightMargin = -250;
layoutParams.bottomMargin = -250;
view.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);
break;
}
mRrootLayout.invalidate();
return true;
}
}Output
