Android Layout make all children's not clickable

Question

I am using Relative Layout and many buttons in it with TextViews etc.I want to make all of them not clickable unless some event happens.

Answer 1

If Butterknife library is used, the views can be grouped and the functionality can be done on the group. Refer http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife/,

@BindViews({ R.id.first_name, R.id.middle_name, R.id.last_name })
List nameViews;

The apply method allows you to act on all the views in a list at once.

ButterKnife.apply(nameViews, DISABLE);
ButterKnife.apply(nameViews, ENABLED, false);

Action and Setter interfaces allow specifying simple behavior.

static final ButterKnife.Action DISABLE = new ButterKnife.Action() {
  @Override public void apply(View view, int index) {
    view.setEnabled(false);
  }
};

static final ButterKnife.Setter ENABLED = new ButterKnife.Setter() {
  @Override public void set(View view, Boolean value, int index) {
    view.setEnabled(value);
  }
};

For eg., if the textviews are grouped, you could do

static final ButterKnife.Setter ENABLED = new ButterKnife.Setter() {
        @Override public void set(TextView view, Boolean value, int index) {
            view.setClickable(value);
            view.setLongClickable(value);
            if(value){
                view.setTextColor(color);
            } else {
                view.setTextColor(color);
            }
        }
    };