onTouchEvent never called MapActivity

Question

I have an activity which extends MapActivity. But when I tap the map, the onTouchEvent never gets called. Why is this?

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    Log.d("temp", "onTouchEvent");
    return true;
}

edit: I now have these 2 methods in a custum created ItemizedOverlay to catch my events. The first one gets called when I tap an overlay. But the second (onTouchEvent) never get's called when I touch the map.

@Override
    protected boolean onTap(int index) {
      OverlayItem item = mOverlays.get(index);
      this.movement = true;
      Log.d("temp", "overlayItem tapped" + item.getTitle());
      return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event, MapView mapView) {
        this.movement = false;
        Log.d("temp", "overlayItem tapped finish");
        return true;
    }

Answer 1

The MapView associated with a MapActivity almost certainly handles the view for you. If you look at the docs for Activity#onTouchEvent() it says: "Called when a touch screen event was not handled by any of the views under it."

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onTouchEvent(android.view.MotionEvent)

I'm guessing what you want to do with that touch event is already handled by the MapView, maybe find the right place to put it inside of that code?