Android: long click on a button -> perform actions

Question

I want to use the same button to perform 2 different methods. One method when user single clicks it and a second method (different) when the user LONG clicks it.

I use this for the single short click (which works great):

Button downSelected = (Button) findViewById(R.id.downSelected);
        downSelected.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                method();
                }
            }

        });

I've tried to add a longClickListener but it didn't work.

Appreciate any ideas on how to solve this.

Thanks!

you should post your complete code, what you tried with the OnLongClickListener — Nathan Schwermann, Dec 09 '10 at 20:26

blindstuff · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-09T20:43:47.630

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I've done it before, I just used:

down.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() { 
        @Override
        public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            return true;
        }
    });

Per documentation:

public void setOnLongClickListener (View.OnLongClickListener l)

Since: API Level 1 Register a callback to be invoked when this view is clicked and held. If this view is not long clickable, it becomes long clickable.

Notice that it requires to return a boolean, this should work.

edited Dec 09 '10 at 20:43

answered Dec 09 '10 at 20:34

blindstuff

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Thanks! Must have implanted it wrong when I tried it. the long click works but it still performs the short click method as well, any ideas? – Lior Iluz Dec 09 '10 at 20:37
You mean it does both or just calls the short method? What version of android is this on? – blindstuff Dec 09 '10 at 20:37
it does both :\ on Android 2.2 – Lior Iluz Dec 09 '10 at 20:38
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oh never mind, just needed to change the return false to true :) – Lior Iluz Dec 09 '10 at 20:40
use return false for long click only – mremremre1 May 25 '14 at 12:18

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 07 '13 at 12:34

To get both functions working for a clickable image that will respond to both short and long clicks, I tried the following that seems to work perfectly:

    image = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageViewCompass);
    image.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {
            shortclick();
        }
     });

    image.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() {
    public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
        longclick();
        return true;
    }
});

//Then the functions that are called:

 public void shortclick()
{
 Toast.makeText(this, "Why did you do that? That hurts!!!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

}

 public void longclick()
{
 Toast.makeText(this, "Why did you do that? That REALLY hurts!!!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

}

It seems that the easy way of declaring the item in XML as clickable and then defining a function to call on the click only applies to short clicks - you must have a listener to differentiate between short and long clicks.

score 17 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 25 '11 at 15:46

Initially when i implemented a longClick and a click to perform two separate events the problem i face was that when i had a longclick , the application also performed the action to be performed for a simple click . The solution i realized was to change the return type of the longClick to true which is normally false by default . Change it and it works perfectly .

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 26 '20 at 12:47

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Change return false; to return true; in longClickListener

You long click the button, if it returns true then it does the work. If it returns false then it does it's work and also calls the short click and then the onClick also works.

answered Aug 26 '20 at 12:47

Vijay

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 28 '23 at 10:13

Thanks!! In KOTLIN works like this:

binding.someView.setOnClickListener {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Simple click!!!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
        }

binding.someView.setOnLongClickListener {
    Toast.makeText(this, "Looong click!!!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
    true
    }

score -3 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 09 '10 at 20:25

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Try using an ontouch listener instead of a clicklistener.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnTouchListener.html

answered Dec 09 '10 at 20:25

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for the long click or for both? – Lior Iluz Dec 09 '10 at 20:31
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This answer is not descriptive enough to be useful. How would you suggest the onTouchListener to be used for detecting long click? – Simon Forsberg Oct 04 '12 at 14:39
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I agree with Simon - however; you could calculate the time between between MotionEvent.DOWN and MotionEvent.UP – else Jul 31 '17 at 15:18

score -3 · Answer 7 · edited Jul 03 '21 at 13:05

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The simplest and updated method is using a long click listener like

someView.setOnLongClickListener {
        //do your work 
        true
    }

edited Jul 03 '21 at 13:05

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answered Jul 01 '21 at 17:00

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