how to add button click event in android studio

Question

So I have done some research, and after defining you button as an object by the code

private Button buttonname;
buttonname = (Button) findViewById(R.id.butto         


        

Answer 1

//as I understand it, the "this" denotes the current view(focus) in the android program

No, "this" will only work if your MainActivity referenced by this implements the View.OnClickListener, which is the parameter type for the setOnClickListener() method. It means that you should implement View.OnClickListener in MainActivity.