How to disable an Android button?

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Dijo David picture Dijo David · Dec 8, 2010 · Viewed 519k times · Source

I have created a layout that contains two buttons, Next and Previous. In between the buttons I'm generating some dynamic views. So when I first launch the application I want to disable the "Previous" button since there wont be any previous views. I also want to disable the "Next" button when there are not more views to display. Is there anyway to disable the buttons?

screen shot of sample layout

Answer

Varun picture Varun · Dec 8, 2010

Did you try this?

myButton.setEnabled(false);

Update: Thanks to Gwen. Almost forgot that android:clickable can be set in your XML layout to determine whether a button can be clickable or not.

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