Touch area for the SwipeOpenView

[IonutNegru87]

Hello,

I'm having an scenario where I also have some other interactions on my ViewHolder which no longer work because the TouchListener of the SwipeOpenViewHolder intercepts all the touch events.

Is there an method with which I can reduce the area allowed for the swipe to open? I'm also thinking this area limitation could be taken into consideration only when the view is not open (this could also be another feature which can be combined with this flow).

Thank you.

[alex-townsend]

What touch events are being intercepted? The listener used in the library should only start intercepting events once it's deemed a touch event as a swipe and has selected that view holder for swiping.

You can use the startSwipe(SwipeOpenViewholder) method to start a swipe on a view holder based off whatever you want (like a small handle view) -- this is carried over from Google's ItemTouchHelper.

I could possibly build in a way to disable the swipe-detection from the listeners, and only allow swipes to be started programmatically by using startSwipe() -- this would allow you to restrict the swipe area to whatever you define. I'm hesitant to alter the normal functionality further than that though.

[IonutNegru87]

Hello @alex-townsend,

I think giving the ability to override the default touch event interceptor should suffice for this as it will allow any developer to provide it's own flow for starting and ending an swipe.

Meanwhile I used AndroidSwipeLayout library as it provided an SwipeDenier listener. Maybe something like that could be combined also with this custom ItemTouchHelper (but I do not know if possible as I didn't had too much time to look at that implementation and it's dependencies).