Android - Listen to a disabled button

android button actionlistener
Justin picture Justin · Jan 26, 2012 · Viewed 11.7k times · Source

How can I respond to an event based on clicking a disabled Button. I have a requirement that I have to present Dialog, when a disabled Button is clicked but the listener I have assigned does not fire even when I setClickable(false)

Am an android noob, sorry.

Answer

Ricard picture Ricard · Nov 26, 2018

You can for example use #setActivated() method instead. Disabling a view will ignore all events. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#setActivated(boolean). Then you can customize text and background styles with android:state_activate attribute if you need: 

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_activated="false"
      android:color="@color/a_color" />
    <item android:state_activated="true"
      android:color="@color/another_color" />
</selector>

Related questions

Android: combining text & image on a Button or ImageButton

I'm trying to have an image (as the background) on a button and add dynamically, depending on what's happening during run-time, some text above/over the image. If I use ImageButton I don't even have the possibility to add text. …

Read More
How to Set Opacity (Alpha) for View in Android

I have a button as in the following: <Button android:text="Submit" android:id="@+id/Button01" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> </Button> In my onCreate() event, I am calling Button01 like …

Read More
Android - border for button

How do I add a border to a button? Is it possible to do this without resorting to use of images?

Read More