Disable an ImageButton

Question

This looks easy, but I\'m not able to disable an ImageButton. It continues to receive click events, and its appearance don\'t change like a standard Button woul

Answer 1

I managed to build a solution inspired by Oleg Vaskevich's answer, but without the need to pass drawable resource ID to setEnabled().

Here is Kotlin code, inside of utility module:

fun Drawable.deepCopy(): Drawable =
    constantState?.newDrawable()?.mutate() ?:
        throw RuntimeException("Called on null Drawable!")

fun Drawable.toGrayscale(): Drawable =
        deepCopy().apply { setColorFilter(Color.GRAY, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN) }

fun ImageButton.setAndShowEnabled(enabled: Boolean) {
    if (enabled == isEnabled)
        return

    isEnabled = enabled

    if (enabled) {
        setImageDrawable(tag as Drawable)
    }
    else {
        if (tag == null)
            tag = drawable

        setImageDrawable(drawable.toGrayscale())
    }
}

It can be used like this:

val button: ImageButton = findViewById(...)
// ...
button.setAndShowEnabled(false)

// launch async operation
GlobalScope.launch {
    // do work here

    // unblock button
    button.setAndShowEnabled(true)
}