I want to define an onClick Listener for an EditText in the Layout-XML of may activity, but it always fails with an obscure Exception.
The Layout is injected with setContentView()
in the onCreate
-Method of my activity. I am not using a Fragment here and I am well aware that the XML defined onClick
Listener do not work for fragments.
For testing purposes I added the same handler method to an ImageView that is located next to the EditText. There the handler works, on the EditText it fails. So this is something special of the EditText and not a general Problem of a mislocated handler method.
This is the relevant part of my layout file:
<ImageView
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|top"
android:layout_rowSpan="3"
android:src="@drawable/ic_action_event"
android:onClick="onCreationClicked"
/>
<EditText
android:id="@+id/creation_edit"
android:focusable="false"
android:clickable="true"
android:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
android:hint="@string/enter_creation"
android:onClick="onCreationClicked"
style="@style/PickerEditText"
/>
When I click on the ImageView the associated method is executed and a DialogFragment is started. When I click on the EditText I get the following Exception:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find a method onCreationClicked(View) in the activity class android.support.v7.internal.widget.TintContextWrapper for onClick handler on view class android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText with id 'creation_edit'
at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:3994)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4756)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:19749)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: onCreationClicked [class android.view.View]
at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:664)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:643)
at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:3987)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4756)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:19749)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694)
I am currently testing on a Samsung S4 (Android 5.0.1) API 21 and AppCompat Library in Version v7 22.1.0
Adding the onClick
Listener programmatically in the onCreate
method would be a solution, but I wanted to avoid this, since it results in a single onClick
method with a big switch statement and the XML-based onClick-Handler result in a more readable and explicit code which I prefer.
Did additional research:
Now I can reproduce the error behaviour and the correct behavior (see below). It seems this is a bug (or a feature) introduced with appcompat-v7 22.1.0 & 22.1.1.
I created a new fresh project with Android Studio with Blank Activity. minSdk 17, targetSdk 21. Added the EditText
to the blank Activity
as shown below and added the handler method to the Activity
like this:
public void onCreationClicked(View view) {
Toast.makeText(this,"Event Handled",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
Started the App touched the EditText --> Crash
Changed my build.gradle from:
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.1.1'
to
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.0.0'
and the Toast
is shown.
Any ideas?