onClick not triggered on LinearLayout with child

Question

I've got a custom LinearLayout with a smaller TextView child. I'd like to be able to click the area not covered by the TextView, so I set clickable=true and an onclicklistener to the LinearLayout, but onClick is not triggered. If I set the onclick listener on the TextView it works as expected...

Anybody can help?

ar_item.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/ar_item" android:layout_width="202dp"
    android:layout_height="62dp" android:background="@drawable/bg_item_ar"
    android:clickable="true">

    <TextView android:id="@+id/ar_item_txt"
        android:layout_width="164dp" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:paddingBottom="8dp" android:paddingLeft="8dp"
        android:paddingTop="8dp" android:paddingRight="6dp" android:gravity="center"
        android:background="#50000000" />

</LinearLayout>

My custom LinearLayout

public class ARView extends LinearLayout
{    

    public ARView(final Context context, String name, String id)
    {        
        super(context);  
        getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.ar_item, this ,true);
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)   getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); 
        inflater.inflate(R.layout.ar_item, null);

        TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.ar_item_txt);
        textView.setText(name);

        setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
        {
            public void onClick(View v)
            {                   
                Toast t = Toast.makeText(context, "hey!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
                t.show();
            }
        });
    }
}

Answer 1

for every child

android:duplicateParentState="true"

Answer 2

The android:duplicateParentState="true" made my TextView looks like it's disabled, and cannot receive click event.

All you need is set the TextView clickable="false". So the click event will dispatch to parent layout, and the TextView still can react to touch event (with ripple effect).

Answer 3

I faced the same problem, and all the XML Attributes didn't work. I am not sure if this happens because i programmatically inflate and add the views, but this is how i worked around the problem.

I have a Class which extends LinearLayout, with a TextView and an ImageView. After inflating the layout and getting the views, I assigned the child views a OnClickListener, when pressed, executes the LineaLayout's onClickListner.

public class MyView extends LinearLayout {
private OnClickListener clickListener;
ImageView imageView;
TextView textView;

@Override
public void setOnClickListener(@Nullable OnClickListener l) {
    super.setOnClickListener(l);
    clickListener = l;
}

void afterViews() {
    imageView.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            clickListener.onClick(MyView.this);
            return false;
        }
    });
    textView.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            clickListener.onClick(MyView.this);
            return false;
        }
    });
}

I also tried overriding OnTouchListener, but then my child views didn't have the ripple effect, which I needed.

Answer 4

Make Your parent LinearLayout's android:clickable="true"

Make all of the the childview's android:clickable="false"

Under Linearlayout - Remove android:inputType="" from TextView

Answer 5

This isn't your case, but I had similar problem with clickable ViewGroup. After a hour of looking for solution a found out that I set android:inputType to TextView inside my ViewGroup which was blocking onClick() listener (no idea why)

Don't use android:inputType with TextView

Answer 6

I faced the same problem, and all the XML attributes didn't work. I think this happens because I programmatically inflate and add the views. The fix for me was to - also that programatically - set the inflated root view not clickable:

View view = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.some_layout, someLinearLayout, false);
view.setClickable(false);

(Yes, I tried to have the some_layout not clickable in XML.)