diff --git a/src/api-impl-jni/views/android_view_View.c b/src/api-impl-jni/views/android_view_View.c
index 81383e6d..2fcf4c95 100644
--- a/src/api-impl-jni/views/android_view_View.c
+++ b/src/api-impl-jni/views/android_view_View.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ void _setOnTouchListener(JNIEnv *env, jobject this, GtkWidget *widget, jobject o
 
 JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_android_view_View_setOnTouchListener(JNIEnv *env, jobject this, jobject on_touch_listener)
 {
-	GtkWidget *widget = GTK_WIDGET(_PTR(_GET_LONG_FIELD(this, "widget")));
+	GtkWidget *widget = gtk_widget_get_parent(GTK_WIDGET(_PTR(_GET_LONG_FIELD(this, "widget"))));
 
 	_setOnTouchListener(env, this, widget, on_touch_listener);
 }
diff --git a/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/WrapperWidget.c b/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/WrapperWidget.c
index df62a96d..ff15888c 100644
--- a/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/WrapperWidget.c
+++ b/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/WrapperWidget.c
@@ -170,8 +170,7 @@ void wrapper_widget_set_jobject(WrapperWidget *wrapper, JNIEnv *env, jobject job
 
 	jmethodID ontouchevent_method = _METHOD(_CLASS(jobj), "onTouchEvent", "(Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z");
 	if (ontouchevent_method != handle_cache.view.onTouchEvent) {
-		/* use wrapper->child since the jobject may not have the "widget" variable set yet */
-		_setOnTouchListener(env, jobj, wrapper->child, NULL);
+		_setOnTouchListener(env, jobj, GTK_WIDGET(wrapper), NULL);
 	}
 
 	jmethodID computeScroll_method = _METHOD(_CLASS(jobj), "computeScroll", "()V");