android - how can i get a reference to the top level view to set an onTouch event?

could you please help me out or giv开发者_开发技巧e me an example of the code i'd need to set a onTouchListener for an activity so when touched the activity will start a new activity? Just don't know how to do this and would like to see the code so I can make mine work

Thank you very much

In your layout.xml give an id to your root ViewGroup element let say 'RootView'. Then in your onCreate() method of your Activity you can get this view by calling:

     View root=findViewById(R.id.RootView);

and then you can set your OnTouchListener:

     root.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            startActivity(new Intent(CurrentActivity.this, MyNewActivity.class));
            //return true, the event was consumed
            return true;
        }
    });

Try this:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
{
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

  LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
  ViewGroup layout = (ViewGroup)inflater.inflate (R.layout.main_activity, null);
  setContentView (layout);
  ...
}