How to fire onListItemClick in Listactivity with b

Question

I have a simple ListActivity that uses a custom ListAdapter to generate the views in the list. Normally the ListAdapter would just fill the views with TextViews, but now I want to put a button there as well.

It is my understanding and experience however that putting a focusable view in the list item prevents the firing of onListItemClick() in the ListActivity when the list item is clicked. The button still functions normally within the list item, but when something besides the button is pressed, I want onListItemClick to be triggered.

How can I make this work?

Answer 1

I have the same problem: OnListItemClick not fired ! [SOLVED]
That's happen on class that extend ListActivity,
with a layout for ListActivity that content TextBox and ListView nested into LinearLayout
and another layout for the rows (a CheckBox and TextBox nested into LineraLayout).

That's code:

res/layout/configpage.xml (main for ListActivity)

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"  
    android:orientation="vertical"  
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"  
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" > 
    <TextView  
        android:id="@+id/selection"  
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"  
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
        android:text="pippo" /> 
    <ListView  
        android:id="@android:id/list"  
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"  
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
        android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"  
        android:background="#aaFFaa" > 
    </ListView> 
<LinearLayout> 

res/layout/row.xml (layout for single row)  
<LinearLayout  
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"  
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"  
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"> 
  <CheckBox  
      android:id="@+id/img"  
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"  
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
      **android:focusable="false"**  
      **android:focusableInTouchMode="false"** /> 

  <TextView  
      android:id="@+id/testo"  
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"  
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
      **android:focusable="false"**  
      **android:focusableInTouchMode="false"** /> 
</LinearLayout> 

src/.../.../ConfigPage.java

public class ConfigPage extends ListActivity
{
    TextView selection;

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {  
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);  
        setContentView(R.layout.configpage);  
        // loaded from res/value/strings  
        String[] azioni = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.ACTIONS);  
        setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.row, 
                R.id.testo,   azioni));  
        selection = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.selection);  
    }       

    public void onListItemClick(ListView parent, View view, int position, long id)
    {
        selection.setText(" " + position);
    }
}

This begin to work when I added on row.xml

• android:focusable="false"
• android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

I use Eclipse 3.5.2
Android SDK 10.0.1
min SDK version: 3

I hope this is helpful
... and sorry for my english :(

Answer 2

When a custom ListView contains focusable elements, onListItemClick won't work (I think it's the expected behavior). Just remove the focus from the custom view, it will do the trick:

For example:

public class ExtendedCheckBoxListView extends LinearLayout {

    private TextView mText;
    private CheckBox mCheckBox;

    public ExtendedCheckBoxListView(Context context, ExtendedCheckBox aCheckBoxifiedText) {
         super(context);
         …
         mText.setFocusable(false);
         mText.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);

         mCheckBox.setFocusable(false);
         mCheckBox.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
        …       
    }
}