Making a LinearLayout act like an Button

Question

I have a LinearLayout that I\'ve styled to look like a button, and it contains a few text/ImageView elements. I would like to make the whole

Answer 1

In the application I am working I need to create a LinearLayout dynamically. In this case the command

ll.setClickable(true);

is not working as supposed to do. Although I may miss something, I managed to exploit setOnTouchListener to get the same result and I submit the code in case anyone has the same needs.

The following code creates a LinearLayout with two textviews and round corners, changing color when pressed.

First, create two xml files in drawable folder, one for normal and one for pressed linearlayout state.

Normal state xml (drawable/rounded_edges_normal.xml)

Pressed state xml (drawable/rounded_edges_pressed.xml). The only difference is in the color...

Then the following code does the job

Global variable:

public int layoutpressed = -1;

In onCreate():

// Create some textviews to put into the linear layout...
TextView tv1 = new TextView(this);
TextView tv2 = new TextView(this);
tv1.setText("First Line");
tv2.setText("Second Line");

// LinearLayout definition and some layout properties...
final LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(context);
ll.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);

// it is supposed that the linear layout will be in a table.
// if this is not the case for you change next line appropriately...
ll.setLayoutParams(new TableRow.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));

ll.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.rounded_edges_normal);
ll.addView(tv1);
ll.addView(tv2);
ll.setPadding(10, 10, 10, 10);
// Now define the three button cases
ll.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
                @Override
                public boolean onTouch(View arg0, MotionEvent arg1) {
                if (arg1.getAction()==MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN){
                        ll.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.rounded_edges_pressed);
                        ll.setPadding(10, 10, 10, 10);
                        layoutpressed = arg0.getId();
                }
                else if (arg1.getAction()== MotionEvent.ACTION_UP){
                        ll.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.rounded_edges_normal);
                        ll.setPadding(10, 10, 10, 10);
                        if(layoutpressed == arg0.getId()){
                            //  ...........................................................................
                            // Code to execute when LinearLayout is pressed...
                            //  ........................................................................... 
                     }
          }
          else{
                ll.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.rounded_edges_showtmimata);
                ll.setPadding(10, 10, 10, 10);
                layoutpressed = -1;
          }
          return true;
                }
  });