android View with View.GONE still receives onTouch and onClick

Question

This is confusing me:

As far as I have read, a view with setVisibility(View.GONE); should not receive any more touch- or click events. My layout has two parts, which

Answer 1

What I expect is happening is that you make a view invisible, but that views children still respond to clicks (ie your view is a ViewGroup). You could do something along the lines of:

private void hideTheChildren(View v){
    if(v instanceof ViewGroup) {
        int count = ((ViewGroup)v).getChildCount();
        for(int k = 0 ; k < count ; k++) {
            hideTheChildren(((ViewGroup)v).getChildAt(k));
        }
        v.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    }
    else {
        v.setClickable(false);
        v.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    }
}

of course then you also have to do the opposite

private void showTheChildren(View v){
    if(v instanceof ViewGroup) {
        int count = ((ViewGroup)v).getChildCount();
        for(int k = 0 ; k < count ; k++) {
            showTheChildren(((ViewGroup)v).getChildAt(k));
        }
        v.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }
    else {
        v.setClickable(true);
        v.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }
}

This has worked for me in the past. I don't currently know of a better way to do this.