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

For those that did the answers above and still didn't solve their problems, I recommend removing the view from the parent view. If you need display the view again, just make a copy and add it to the parent view.

This might seem overkill but I was hiding / showing whole view groups in your case it might be a button, textview or image, this solution will still work.

Answer 2

I would have post this as a comment, but unfortunately I was not able to post a comment. As it could be a possible solution for you, i post it that way:

As you write "onClick" I assume you're using the onClick attribute in your XML layout. Try to set an OnClickListener with setOnClickListener instead of the onClick attribute. Maybe this helps...

Answer 3

If you set setVisibility(View.GONE) after some animation (fade out, for example), then try clearing the animation with clearAnimation(). This is what helped me.