How to disable all click events of a layout?

Question

I have a layout that contains many views. Is there an easy way to disable all its views click events?

Answer 1

You need to call setEnabled(boolean value) method on the view.

view.setClickable(false);
view.setEnabled(false);

Answer 2

I would create a ViewGroup with all the views that you want to enable/disable at the same time and call setClickable(true/false) to enable/disable clicking.

Answer 3

I would implement onClickListener interface in your activity class and return false in onClick method. I feel it's the easiest way to solve your problem.

Answer 4

Here is a Kotlin extension function implementation of Parag Chauhan's answer

fun View.setAllEnabled(enabled: Boolean) {
    isEnabled = enabled
    if (this is ViewGroup) children.forEach { child -> child.setAllEnabled(enabled) }
}

Answer 5

Rather than iterating through all the children view, you can add this function to the parent Layout view

@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    return true;
}

This will be called before the onTouchEvent for any child views, and if it returns true, the onTouchEvent for child views wont be called at all. You can create a boolean field member to toggle this state on and off if you want.

Answer 6

You can pass View for disable all child click event.

public static void enableDisableView(View view, boolean enabled) {
        view.setEnabled(enabled);
        if ( view instanceof ViewGroup ) {
            ViewGroup group = (ViewGroup)view;

            for ( int idx = 0 ; idx < group.getChildCount() ; idx++ ) {
                enableDisableView(group.getChildAt(idx), enabled);
            }
        }
    }