How to make all views unclickable

Question

I have a LinearLayout which contains many Views (Buttons and TextViews) and I want to make every view inside it unclickable until I process the server request. How can I do that?

You may achieve what you want by looking at [How to get all child view](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7784418/get-all-child-views-inside-linearlayout-at-once) and [setClickable() doc](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View#setClickable(boolean)) — vincrichaud, Mar 08 '19 at 16:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '19 at 16:52

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You can try myView.setEnabled(false);

or

myView.setClickable(false); myView.setFocusable(false);

Basically an enabled false doesn't respond to any response and a clickable false still responds when setting at runtime.

answered Mar 08 '19 at 16:52

Kashish Sharma

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '19 at 16:58

You can put your LinearLayout inside a Relative, and then add another Relative above your linear, with clickable = true.

I suggest you also add a progressbar, and maybe some background opacity so the user knows its loading. So when you are waiting for the request you set the relative that contains the progressbar visibility to visible, and when it has finished you set it back to gone.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">             
         <!-Add your elements-->
    </LinearLayout>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/progress_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@color/semi_gray"
         android:clickable="true"
        android:visibility="gone">

        <ProgressBar
            android:id="@+id/progress_bar"
            android:layout_width="@dimen/spacing_mid_large"
            android:layout_height="@dimen/spacing_mid_large"
            android:layout_centerInParent="true"
            android:indeterminate="true"
            android:visibility="visible" />
    </RelativeLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

How to make all views unclickable

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