---
title: "canScrollHorizontally"
description: "This method is required to correctly support swipe-to-dismiss layouts on WearOS, which search their children for scrollable views to determine whether or not to intercept touch events – a sort of simplified nested scrolling mechanism."
type: "function"
lastmod: "2026-08-27"
---
## API Reference

### canScrollHorizontally

> Source set: Android

```kotlin
override fun canScrollHorizontally(direction: Int): Boolean
```

This method is required to correctly support swipe-to-dismiss layouts on WearOS, which search
their children for scrollable views to determine whether or not to intercept touch events – a
sort of simplified nested scrolling mechanism.

Because a composition may contain many scrollable and non-scrollable areas, and this method
doesn't know which part of the view the caller cares about, it uses the
`lastDownPointerPosition` as the location to check.