View.OnTouchListener and screen rotation coordination

Issue

I am writing an Activity that implements View.OnTouchListener. I noticed that if I press my finger to the screen, change the screen orientation (which triggers Activity destruction and recreation) while keeping my finger down, and then lift my finger, the OnTouchListener.onTouch doesn't get called. It seems like it should, since lifting my finger is a MotionEvent.ACTION_UP. Am I misunderstanding the library/using it wrong, or is this a bug in the framework?

Solution

Before the rotation starts, your onTouch listener should receive a MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL completing the event stream. You don't receive an additional MotionEvent.ACTION_UP because no new event stream has been started.

Answered By - Abhay Buch