Android Question Simple Swipe Directions

[505sw]

Is there a simple way to determine basic swipe directions? I want to have the user press a button and then find which direction the user swiped from there. (L,R,U,D)

 

[NJDude]

You will have to take a look at some of the Gestures libraries.

 

[505sw]

Thanks for the quick reply. I looked over some the gestures samples but it looked far more involved than where I care to go right now. I'm an old school 6502 programmer and I've recently written some apps in MS VB for the PC. I just recently started coding for Android and I'm trying to build up my expertise while trying to publish my first app quickly, if I can. So in short, there's no simple way to detect a swipe direction?

 

[NJDude]

The way to detect what you need is via gestures.

 

[505sw]

The Gesture Demo is devoid of comments, no mention of directions, applies to a panel which would likely be blocked by my button and doesn't even run on my Note 2. I get a screen with some colored blocks which does nothing else. Can you be a little more specific as what I need to reference for gestures? Thank you.

 

[NJDude]

You could try something like THIS that will give you an idea of how to handle gestures and detect direction.

A good Gestures library is the Gesture Detector.

 

[505sw]

Very cool! This is exactly what I was looking for.

 

[505sw]

This works great if there's nothing on the screen. Unfortunately, if I swipe starting on a button, label or small bitmap, the event handler returns nothing.