# View.OnTouchListener

Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)

# OnTouchListener

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Kotlin\|[Java](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnTouchListener "View this page in Java")  

```
interface OnTouchListener
```

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| [android.view.View.OnTouchListener](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/view/View.OnTouchListener#) |

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| Known Direct Subclasses [ZoomButtonsController](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/widget/ZoomButtonsController.html#) |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [ZoomButtonsController](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/widget/ZoomButtonsController.html#) | The[ZoomButtonsController](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/widget/ZoomButtonsController.html#)handles showing and hiding the zoom controls and positioning it relative to an owner view. | |

Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a touch event is dispatched to this view. The callback will be invoked before the touch event is given to the view.

## Summary

|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Public methods                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ||
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| abstract[Boolean](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-boolean/index.html) | [onTouch](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/view/View.OnTouchListener#onTouch(android.view.View,%20android.view.MotionEvent))`(`v:` `[View](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/view/View)!`, `event:` `[MotionEvent](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/view/MotionEvent)!`)` Called when a touch event is dispatched to a view. |

## Public methods

### onTouch

Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)  

```
abstract fun onTouch(
    v: View!, 
    event: MotionEvent!
): Boolean
```

Called when a touch event is dispatched to a view. This allows listeners to get a chance to respond before the target view.

|                                                                              Parameters                                                                              ||
|---------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `v`     | [View](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/view/View)!:The view the touch event has been dispatched to.                                  |
| `event` | [MotionEvent](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/view/MotionEvent)!:The MotionEvent object containing full information about the event. |

|                                                                      Return                                                                       ||
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Boolean](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-boolean/index.html) | True if the listener has consumed the event, false otherwise. |