ListView item with a button on it swallows touch events

Question

I'm working on an android app in which I'm displaying a list of items and allowing the user to click on a star icon to favourite items, which will then be displayed in a separate activity.

For this list then I am using a RelativeLayout with a ImageView for an icon, a TextView for a name of the item and an Button for the favourite button.

The problem I have is that without the button the list items touch properly and glow on response to a touch. With the button however they dont glow correctly, however they will fire any methods I place in the android:onClick xml attribute of the relativeLayout

Does anyone know of a way to fix this behaviour?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '12 at 18:30

When using an ImageButton you have to call

myImageButton.setFocusable(false);

programmatically because its constructor sets it to true. You can do so by overwriting the getView-method of your adapter:

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    View view = super.getView(position, convertView, parent);
    view.findViewById(R.id.idOfYourImageButton).setFocusable(false);
    return view;
}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 03 '12 at 17:38

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There are a lot of stackoverflow questions on this, but none that seemed to give a simple solution, so I'm posting what worked for me here:

My specific example involves a ListFragment, each item in the listview contains a standard button. I want the button and the listview to be clickable separately.

In the listFragment, add this:

    @Override
    public void onActivityCreated (Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);

        this.getListView().setItemsCanFocus(false);
    }

In the xml for the row item, add this to the Button XML:

android:focusable="false"

.. and that's it. Did the trick for me.

answered May 03 '12 at 17:38

Steven Elliott

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does this still allow focusing through the trackball? Would prefer a solution that supports the trackball as many old phones are still in use with them. – Michael Allen May 04 '12 at 11:01
Another small issue: clicking the row makes the button show it's pressed state, even though it registers `onListItemClick` on the row (and not `onClick` for the Button). Any solution for that? – Karakuri Aug 29 '12 at 21:46

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Did you set listview focusable to be false

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edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Mar 07 '11 at 14:06

100rabh

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ListView item with a button on it swallows touch events

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