How to detect the swipe left or Right in Android?

I have an EditText view in android. On this I want to detect swipe left or right. I am able to get it on an empty space using the code below. But this does not work when I swipe on an EditText. How do I do that? Please let me know If I am doing something wrong. Thank you.

Code Used:

switch (touchevent.getAction())
{
    case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
    {
        oldTouchValue = touchevent.getX();
        break;
    }
    case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
    {
        float currentX = touchevent.getX();
        if (oldTouchValue < currentX)
        {
            // swiped left
        }
        if (oldTouchValue > currentX )
        {
            swiped right
        }
    break;
    }
}