Detect left to right swipe action on Android wear activity

Question

This may sound familiar, I request everyone to read the issue I am facing. My requirement is straightforward. Android wear already has left-to-right swipe to dismiss the activity. However, all I want to do is detect when this action happens and then log the time in a file. My logging mechanism is ready. However, I am not sure how to get the event of right swipe on a wear activity. Please note that I still want to dismiss the activity but just keep a log of it. my activity is a simple class that extends an AppCompatActivity. I am not using any fragments. I just want to detect when that action happens and log that event and exit the app peacefully. Does GestureDetector on android help in this case?

Answer 1

It seems you are looking for a GestureListener , I would implement onScroll or onFling and would detect a change in the x-axis.

https://developer.android.com/training/gestures/detector.html

There is also a nice video out there:

https://youtu.be/QiItWwlNwWg

Alternatively, you can also check if your Activity was closed by overriding either onDestroy() or onPause() in your Activity .