using onClick on TextView with selectable text - how to avoid double click?

Question

This is so strange, but if you put an onClickListener on a TextView (or non-editable EditText) which has android:textIsSelectable="true" - it needs not one tap, but two. I checked it on 3 phones and all of them perform onClick only after second tap.

Of course, if you make focusable="false" or android:textIsSelectable="false" it works from the 1st tap, but text selection doesn't work.

Please, help me with that issue

this answer works for me. https://stackoverflow.com/a/35221862/908821 — Angel Koh, Jul 13 '17 at 02:31

SerjantArbuz · Answer 1 · 2022-12-23T13:19:44.497

Set in XML to your TextView:

android:textIsSelectable="true"

After that set onTouchListener to your TextView and in them do this:

if (motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) view.requestFocus();

It's set focus for every tap on TextView. After all set onClickListener to your TextView.

I have the same problem with a ViewHolder in my RecyclerView.Adapter. So, I cut it for you if you need:

class RollHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnClickListener, View.OnTouchListener {

    private TextView textView;

    RollHolder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        textView = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.text_view);
        textView.setOnClickListener(this);
        textView.setOnTouchListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        switch (view.getId()){
            case R.id.text_view:
                // Do here that you need
                break;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
        switch (view.getId()){
            case R.id.text_view:
                if (motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) view.requestFocus();
                break;
        };
        return false;
    }
}

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:33

I had the same problem and it's hard to ask and search for a resolution.

Here are two things that I noticed in addition to the double tap behavior:

if you really double tap (quickly) on a TextView with textIsSelectable, it selects the word you tapped, even when the focus is on something else, which means the view somehow registered the first touch as well.
if you long tap while the focus is somewhere else, it works and starts the selection action mode as if it was focused already

Here's how I managed to make it work. It's not beautiful, but everything works fine so far: in the XML you only need to add textIsSelectable, no other focusable / focusableInTouchMode / clickable / enabled attributes needed; then you need two listeners, one is the existing onClick which works, but needs a double take and the other is an onFocusChange where you handle the exceptional first tap:

hint = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.hint);
hint.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override public void onClick(View v) {
        handleHintClick();
    }
});
hint.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (hasFocus) { handleHintClick(); }
    }
});

Here is an alternative solution in a related question which I don't like and didn't even try: wrap the TextView in a FrameLayout and add the listener to that.

Here is another related question which has more solutions.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 08 '19 at 14:17

Use onTouchListener to detect clicks and redirect them to the container view:

textView.setOnTouchListener { _, event ->
    if (event.action == 1 && !textView.hasSelection()) {
        containerView.callOnClick()
    }
    false
}

This will keep the ability to select and unselect text without calling onClick event.

score -1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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android:longClickable="false"
android:clickable="false"

Disable the button with setEnabled(false) until it is safe for the user to click it again.

May this helpful to you

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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Double click is not an unwanted user interaction here, it's an unwanted Android behavior, and as such he wants to "avoid" the system forcing the user to do it and not "prevent" the user from doing so. – TWiStErRob May 11 '15 at 09:45

score -3 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 22 '17 at 23:39

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Try this.

use in XML file

    android:onclick"your Name"//for example I used "onImageListClick"

    public void onImageListClick(View view)
        {
             //do your task.
            //Intent intent = new Intent(this, ImageListActivity.class);
            //intent.putExtra(Extra.IMAGES, IMAGES);
            //startActivity(intent);
        }

or

  txtboxname.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
   @Override
    public void onClick(View arg0) {
////do you task.
       }        
});

edited Jul 22 '17 at 23:39

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Of course that's what I do. but with android:textIsSelectable="true" it needs 2 clicks instead 1 to work . try it yourself – Vlad Alexeev Mar 26 '14 at 11:24

using onClick on TextView with selectable text - how to avoid double click?

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