Add button to a SlidingDrawer handle?

Question

I've been working on this for a while. The Idea started simple, I wanted a button on a SlidingDrawer handle to allow the user to view settings specific to the content of the drawer. So I made a layout with a button off to the side and set it as the handle. The drawer drew fine, but would not allow the button (on the handle) to be pressed. When ever I try to click the thing, the click is interpreted as a handle click, and toggle the state of the drawer.

Does anyone know whats going on?

Thanks ~Aedon

Answer 1

I'll post my implementation, to save others the trouble.

You basically have to extend the SlidingDrawer class and handle the onInterceptTouch events to pass through when they're on top of items inside the handle layout.

This assumes you are using a ViewGroup (e.g. any layout) for the handle and all the views inside it are clickable.

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.SlidingDrawer;

public class ClickableSlidingDrawer extends SlidingDrawer {

    private ViewGroup mHandleLayout;
    private final Rect mHitRect = new Rect();

    public ClickableSlidingDrawer(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public ClickableSlidingDrawer(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }



    @Override
    protected void onFinishInflate() {
        super.onFinishInflate();

        View handle = getHandle();

        if (handle instanceof ViewGroup) {
            mHandleLayout = (ViewGroup) handle;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        if (mHandleLayout != null) {
            int childCount = mHandleLayout.getChildCount();
            int handleClickX = (int)(event.getX() - mHandleLayout.getX());
            int handleClickY = (int)(event.getY() - mHandleLayout.getY());

            Rect hitRect = mHitRect;

            for (int i=0;i<childCount;i++) {
                View childView = mHandleLayout.getChildAt(i);
                childView.getHitRect(hitRect);

                if (hitRect.contains(handleClickX, handleClickY)) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }

        return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(event);
    }
}

Then, in your layout .xml just use <my.package.name.ClickableSlidingDrawer> instead of <SlidingDrawer>