---
title: "Intercepting touch events passed to Nutrient"
canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/android/knowledge-base/intercepting-touch-events/"
md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/android/knowledge-base/intercepting-touch-events.md"
last_updated: "2026-05-15T19:10:04.908Z"
description: "Learn to intercept touch events in Nutrient by wrapping `PdfFragment` in a custom `ViewGroup`. Detect multitouch and enhance event handling effectively."
---

Nutrient consumes touch events on displayed documents while providing simple callbacks for the most interesting events. Refer to the [document listeners](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/android/miscellaneous/document-listeners.md#document-events) guide for a full list of exposed events.

If you need to observe all touch events — for example, to detect multitouch — we recommend wrapping [`PdfFragment`](https://www.nutrient.io/api/android/nutrient/com.pspdfkit.ui/-pdf-fragment/index.html) inside a custom [`ViewGroup`](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGroup.html). You can then observe all touch events and intercept them before they’re handled in `PdfFragment` by implementing [`ViewGroup#onInterceptTouchEvent()`](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGroup.html#onInterceptTouchEvent(android.view.MotionEvent)). You can read more about this mechanism in the [Manage touch events in a ViewGroup](https://developer.android.com/training/gestures/viewgroup) guide.
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