Catch onTouch event by parent, handle it and pass to children
My understanding is that it actually goes the other direction. The Child views get their event triggered first (sort of). The root view get's it's dispatchTouchEvent() called, which propagates the event down to the children's onTouchEvent(), and then, depending on whether they return true or false, the parent's onTouchEvent() is called.
The normal solution for intercepting things like this is to override dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) in one's activity like so:
@Overridepublic boolean dispatchTouchEvent (MotionEvent ev) { // Do your calcluations return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);}The documentation for this one is here. Note that you can also override that method in any ViewGroup (such as a FrameLayout, etc)