Android - Detect doubletap AND tripletap on view

Question

I've been trying to build a tap detector that can detect both double and tripe tap. After my efforts failed I searched a long time on the net to find something ready to use but no luck! It's strange that libraries for something like this are so scarce. Any help ??

Answer 1

You can try something like this.

Though I would generally recommend against using triple taps as a pattern as it is not something users are generally used to, so unless it's properly communicated to them, most might never know they can triple tap a view. Same goes for double taping actually on mobile devices, it's not always an intuitive way to interact in that environment.

view.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
    Handler handler = new Handler();

    int numberOfTaps = 0;
    long lastTapTimeMs = 0;
    long touchDownMs = 0;

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

        switch (event.getAction()) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                touchDownMs = System.currentTimeMillis();
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                handler.removeCallbacksAndMessages(null);

                if ((System.currentTimeMillis() - touchDownMs) > ViewConfiguration.getTapTimeout()) {
                    //it was not a tap

                    numberOfTaps = 0;
                    lastTapTimeMs = 0;
                    break;
                }

                if (numberOfTaps > 0 
                        && (System.currentTimeMillis() - lastTapTimeMs) < ViewConfiguration.getDoubleTapTimeout()) {
                    numberOfTaps += 1;
                } else {
                    numberOfTaps = 1;
                }

                lastTapTimeMs = System.currentTimeMillis();

                if (numberOfTaps == 3) {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "triple", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    //handle triple tap
                } else if (numberOfTaps == 2) {
                    handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                        @Override
                        public void run() {
                            //handle double tap
                            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "double", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        }
                    }, ViewConfiguration.getDoubleTapTimeout());
                }
        }

        return true;
    }
});