This sample contains two separate Android applications: DragSource and DropTarget. DragSource contains images and text that can be dropped into the DropTarget app. Images are shared between the two apps through a URI for which the receiving app must request permission first, before it can be used.
It also demonstrates the use of the DragStartHelper from the v13 support library to easily handle drag and drop events.
Android N introduces support for drag and drop between applications, augmenting the existing APIs that have enabled this within a single window before.
To start a drag operation you need to call View.startDragAndDrop
.
Which gesture or action triggers this is up to you as an app developer.
The API guide recommends doing this from
View.OnLongClickListener.onLongClick
and this seems to be the de-facto
standard, but you are free to use other gestures (single tap, tap and drag
etc).
However, if you go for a unconventional drag start gesture, note that
the framework implementation assumes that the pointer (touch or mouse)
is down while the drag is starting, and the most recent touch/click
position is used as the original position of the drag shadow.
See also android.support.v13.view.DragStartHelper
which uses different
gestures for touch and mouse (click and drag works better for mouse
than a long click).
By default a drag and drop operation is constrained by the window
containing the view that started the drag.
To enable cross-window and cross-app drag and drop add
View.DRAG_FLAG_GLOBAL
to the flags passed to the View.startDragAndDrop
call.
If a Uri requiring permission grants is being sent, then the
android.view.View.DRAG_FLAG_GLOBAL_URI_READ
and/or the
android.view.View.DRAG_FLAG_GLOBAL_URI_WRITE
flags must be used also.
To access content URIs requiring permissions on the receiving side, the target
app needs to request the android.view.DropPermissions
from the activity via
android.app.Activity.requestDropPermissions
. This permission will stay either
until the activity is alive, or until the release()
method is called on the
android.view.DropPermissions
object.
This sample uses the Gradle build system. To build this project, use the "gradlew build" command or use "Import Project" in Android Studio.
If you've found an error in this sample, please file an issue: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-DragAndDropAcrossApps-new
Patches are encouraged, and may be submitted by forking this project and submitting a pull request through GitHub. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.
Copyright 2017 The Android Open Source Project, Inc.
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
compileSdkVersion 24
applicationId "com.example.android.dragsource"
minSdkVersion 24
targetSdkVersion 24
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.1.1'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:24.1.1'
compileSdkVersion 24
applicationId "com.example.android.droptarget"
minSdkVersion 24
targetSdkVersion 24
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.0.0'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:24.0.0'
package com.example.android.dragsource
uses-permission
package com.example.android.droptarget
A simple launcher activity containing a summary sample description, sample log and a custom {@link android.support.v4.app.Fragment} which can display a view.
For devices with displays with a width of 720dp or greater, the sample log is always visible, on other devices it's visibility is controlled by an item on the Action Bar.
Create a chain of targets that will receive log data
A simple launcher activity containing a summary sample description, sample log and a custom {@link android.support.v4.app.Fragment} which can display a view.
For devices with displays with a width of 720dp or greater, the sample log is always visible, on other devices it's visibility is controlled by an item on the Action Bar.
Create a chain of targets that will receive log data