Android Drag and Drop Tutorial: Moving Views and Data | Kodeco

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Learn how to use Android’s drag-and-drop framework to enable an advanced gesture-based user experience.

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Thanks very much for this, you have helped immensely in identifying key components like Clipdata to keep a reference of the image being dragged. I had a lot of trouble with drag and drop operations and could not understand how to keep track of the image being dragged. For example, in “setOnLongClickListener” lambda, I did not understand how to return “it” (or the View! innerscope value) outside the wrapped function. I tried setting an outerscope variable, and then assigning “it” to the variable, but it would of course remain the same.

That was one aspect I was having difficulty with, and the tutorial helped a lot. It also helped me understand DragEvents, and how to implement the whole shabang properly. I hope you can post more tutorials for us noobs!