Android: How to make Swipe screen Navigation comfortable

Question

I am using Gesture Listner to acheive Swipe screen navigation. But it is not so comfortable that I need to swipe multiple time to navigate to next or previous screen. What are the proper values for Velocity, Off path and Min Distance.

Please find below is my code:

private static final int SWIPE_MIN_DISTANCE = 50;
private static final int SWIPE_MAX_OFF_PATH = 300;
private static final int SWIPE_THRESHOLD_VELOCITY = 200;

class MyGestureDetector extends SimpleOnGestureListener {
    @Override
    public boolean onFling(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float velocityX, float velocityY) {
        try {
            if (Math.abs(e1.getY() - e2.getY()) > SWIPE_MAX_OFF_PATH)
                return false;
            // right to left swipe
            if(e1.getX() - e2.getX() > SWIPE_MIN_DISTANCE && Math.abs(velocityX) > SWIPE_THRESHOLD_VELOCITY) {
                viewFlipper.setInAnimation(slideLeftIn);
                viewFlipper.setOutAnimation(slideLeftOut);
                viewFlipper.showNext();    
                configDisplay();
            }  else if (e2.getX() - e1.getX() > SWIPE_MIN_DISTANCE && Math.abs(velocityX) > SWIPE_THRESHOLD_VELOCITY) {
                viewFlipper.setInAnimation(slideRightIn);
                viewFlipper.setOutAnimation(slideRightOut);
                viewFlipper.showPrevious();
                configDisplay();
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // nothing
        }
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 1

These links helped me achieve the solution:

GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener

implementing-the-pinch-zoom-gestur

Android-pinch

Answer 2

I recently implemented an app that used flinging and started out with SimpleOnGestureListener just like your example. I logged velocity and offset on each fling and tested on my device to find what I thought was suitable values.

But - I highly recommend you to take a look at the ViewPager which is available in the compability package instead.

About ViewPager with link to example.