Navigating between pages in ADF Mobile with Swipe gestures

Mobile users are getting used to specific touch gestures, such as swipe, in their applications. And sometimes you might want to incorporate those gestures as a means for navigating between pages in your ADF Mobile application.

You can do this by using the amx:actionListener component and having it bind to a method in your backing bean.

The basic ingredients:

In an AMX page add an actionListner to a component for example:

         <amx:listItem id="li1">
            <amx:outputText value="#{row.name}" id="ot3"/>
            <amx:actionListener id="al1" type="swipeLeft" binding="#{viewScope.ma.navigateMethod}"/>
          </amx:listItem>

The binding edit function in the property inspector can help you create the above managed bean (ma).

In the managed bean you can code this:

    public void navigateMethod(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        AdfmfContainerUtilities.invokeContainerJavaScriptFunction(AdfmfJavaUtilities.getFeatureName(), "adf.mf.api.amx.doNavigation", new Object[] { "go" });
    }

In your taskflow for the feature have a navigation rule like this:

      <control-flow-case id="__3">
        <from-outcome>go</from-outcome>
        <to-activity-id>camera</to-activity-id>
      </control-flow-case>

Now with a swipe to the right on the list item you'll navigate to the camera page.