I've been trying to implement a very simple drag and drop in Android, where the dragged item swaps positions with the item it was dropped on.
I've successfully implemented the onLongClick and onDrag listeners. When I drag and drop an item it replaces the item it was dropped on, but I can't figure out how make the replaced item take the place of the dragged item.
I spent a while searching for answers, but most answers just linked complex implementations of drag and drop involving many files with lots of code, and I wasn't able to understand them enough to apply them to my code.
I originally assumed that I wasn't getting a true copy of the ImageView with
ImageView temp = (ImageView) event.getLocalState();
so I tried
ImageView dragged = (ImageView) findViewById(temp.getId());
but that didn't make a difference.
I'm almost certain the problem is in the 'OnDragListener', in the 'case DragEvent.ACTION_DROP:'. Here is my code (from Main.java):
public class Main extends ActionBarActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
findViewById(R.id.ball1).setOnLongClickListener(listenClick);
findViewById(R.id.ball1).setOnDragListener(listenDrag);
findViewById(R.id.target1).setOnLongClickListener(listenClick);
findViewById(R.id.target1).setOnDragListener(listenDrag);
findViewById(R.id.target2).setOnDragListener(listenDrag);
findViewById(R.id.target2).setOnLongClickListener(listenClick);
findViewById(R.id.target3).setOnDragListener(listenDrag);
findViewById(R.id.target3).setOnLongClickListener(listenClick);
View.OnLongClickListener listenClick = new View.OnLongClickListener()
{
@Override
public boolean onLongClick(View v)
{
ClipData data = ClipData.newPlainText("","");
DragShadow dragShadow = new DragShadow(v);
v.startDrag(data, dragShadow, v, 0);
return false;
}
};
private class DragShadow extends View.DragShadowBuilder
{
ColorDrawable greyBox;
public DragShadow(View view)
{
super(view);
greyBox = new ColorDrawable(Color.LTGRAY);
}
@Override
public void onDrawShadow(Canvas canvas)
{
greyBox.draw(canvas);
}
@Override
public void onProvideShadowMetrics(Point shadowSize,
Point shadowTouchPoint)
{
View v = getView();
int height = (int) v.getHeight();
int width = (int) v.getWidth();
greyBox.setBounds(0, 0, width, height);
shadowSize.set(width, height);
shadowTouchPoint.set((int)width/2, (int)height/2);
}
}
View.OnDragListener listenDrag = new View.OnDragListener() {
@Override
public boolean onDrag(View v, DragEvent event)
{
int dragEvent = event.getAction();
switch (dragEvent)
{
case DragEvent.ACTION_DRAG_ENTERED:
Log.i("Drag Event", "Entered");
break;
case DragEvent.ACTION_DRAG_EXITED:
Log.i("Drag Event", "Exited");
break;
case DragEvent.ACTION_DROP:
ImageView target = (ImageView) v;
ImageView temp = (ImageView) event.getLocalState();
ImageView dragged = (ImageView) findViewById(temp.getId());
target.setId(dragged.getId());
target.setImageDrawable(dragged.getDrawable());
dragged.setId(temp.getId());
dragged.setImageDrawable(temp.getDrawable());
break;
}
return true;
}
};
If anyone can tell me why the setImageDrawable works on target, but not on dragged, I'll be very grateful.