Disable the touch events for all the views

Question

What\'s the best way to disable the touch events for all the views?

Answer 1

It may not be possible for the whole application. You will have to override onTouchEvent() for each view and ignore the user inputs.

Answer 2

This piece of code will basically propagate this event to the parent view, allowing the touch event, if and only if the inProgress variable is set to false.

private boolean inProgress = false;

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    if (!inProgress)
        return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
    return true;
 }

Answer 3

In Kotlin:

fun View.setEnabledRecursively(enabled: Boolean) {
    isEnabled = enabled
    if (this is ViewGroup)
        (0 until childCount).map(::getChildAt).forEach { it.setEnabledRecursively(enabled) }
}

// usage
import setEnabledRecursively

myView.setEnabledRecursively(false)

Answer 4

You could try:

your_view.setEnabled(false);

Which should disable the touch events.

alternatively you can try (thanks to Ercan):

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev){      
  return true;//consume
}

or

public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    if(!onInterceptTouchEvent()){
        for(View child : children){
            if(child.dispatchTouchEvent(ev))
                return true;
        }
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

Answer 5

I made this method, which works perfect for me. It disables all touch events for selected view.

public static void disableView(View v) {

    v.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            return true;
        }
    });

    if (v instanceof ViewGroup) {
        ViewGroup vg = (ViewGroup) v;
        for (int i = 0; i < vg.getChildCount(); i++) {
            View child = vg.getChildAt(i);
            disableView(child);
        }
    }
}

Answer 6

Here is a function for disabling all child views of some view group:

 /**
   * Enables/Disables all child views in a view group.
   * 
   * @param viewGroup the view group
   * @param enabled <code>true</code> to enable, <code>false</code> to disable
   * the views.
   */
  public static void enableDisableViewGroup(ViewGroup viewGroup, boolean enabled) {
    int childCount = viewGroup.getChildCount();
    for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
      View view = viewGroup.getChildAt(i);
      view.setEnabled(enabled);
      if (view instanceof ViewGroup) {
        enableDisableViewGroup((ViewGroup) view, enabled);
      }
    }
  }