What is gestures in mobile application?
Android provides special types of touch screen events such as pinch , double tap, scrolls , long presses and flinch. These are all known as gestures.
What are touch events in Android?
Touch event works just like the dispatching of the events but in the reverse order from child to parent. Let's say if we dispatch the event from ViewGroup and intercept the event there, it depends on the return value (true/false) that shall the touch of the view be handled on the ViewGroup or the children.
What is touch gestures?
The touch gesture allows a user to control features of touch-enabled devices such as opening an application, navigating between menus, locking, unlocking the device, taking a screenshot, running a specific task, etc.