DoubleTap in android [duplicate]

If you do the setup right, the OnDoubleTapListener, within the GestureListeneris very useful. You dont need to handle each single tap and count time in between. Instead let Android handle for you what a tap, a double-tap, a scroll or fling might be. With the helper class SimpleGestureListener that implements the GestureListener and OnDoubleTapListener you dont need much to do.

findViewById(R.id.touchableText).setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
    private GestureDetector gestureDetector = new GestureDetector(Test.this, new GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onDoubleTap(MotionEvent e) {
            Log.d("TEST", "onDoubleTap");
            return super.onDoubleTap(e);
        }
        ... // implement here other callback methods like onFling, onScroll as necessary
    });

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        Log.d("TEST", "Raw event: " + event.getAction() + ", (" + event.getRawX() + ", " + event.getRawY() + ")");
        gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event);
        return true;
    }
});

Note: I tested around quite a while to find out, what the right mixture of return true and return false is. This was the really tricky part here.

Another note: When you test this, do it on a real device, instead of the emulator. I had real trouble getting the mouse fast enough to create an onFling event. Real fingers on real devices seem to be much faster.