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 onclicklist

Answer 1

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.