How do I detect if a user has touched any part of the screen other than the inside of an EditText?

Question

I am guessing this means making the whole screen touchable. How exactly is that done?

and secondly calculating if an X,Y is within the EditText.

Answer 1

override the onTouchEvent in the activity you want to implement this....and get the X, Y co-ordinates using event.getX() and event.getY()

   @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        int x = (int)event.getX();
        int y = (int)event.getY();
        switch (event.getAction()) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
        }
    return false;
    }

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