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Reputation: 789

Preventing the on-Click listener from calling itself on hidden views in Android app

I've design the user interface of my app as a collection of views, not activities or fragments. I manage the showing and hiding of views on this collection of views which are right on top of each other.

I believe I chose the wrong design principle to use for my app. The problem I am having is that when I hide a view in order to show another one; the button that resides on the hidden view fires its on-Click listener.

After reading some of the Android Reference documentation, I see that the view tree will navigate down the hierarchy of views in order to consume the touch event. It is then that the on-Click listener of this button is called.

What I need is something to prevent the button from the hidden view to stop calling itself when the user touches the shown view. I know that calling setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE) stops the on-Click listener from being called.

I was thinking of the ViewTreeObserver class that will allow me to create a listener of view hierarchy that somehow allows me to get a handle of all the hidden views in order to call setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE) on the hidden views.

Any ideas or advice

Upvotes: 0

Views: 216

Answers (1)

Karthic Srinivasan
Karthic Srinivasan

Reputation: 525

When you do setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE) for a view, it will still present in the layout. So instead of setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE), try setVisibility(View.GONE).

This will remove the view completely from the layout including the onClickListner attached to it.

When you want that view back, you can use setVisibility(View.VISIBLE) to get it back.

Upvotes: 1

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