generic listener for buttons in a layout of android ?

Question

Scenario: I have three buttons defined in xml

<button android:id="@+id/firstbtn" 
    ...
/>
<button android:id="@+id/secbtn" 
    ...
/>
<button android:id="@+id/thirdbtn" 
    ...
/>

In Java one way to  listen to them is  
Button firstbtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.firstbtn);  
    firstbtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {  
            public void onClick(View v) {  
                Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),   
                        "You have clicked first button",   
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();  
            }  
        });  

for second btn , same code has to be repeated with different id ??
How can I make it generic enough that , it can listen to all buttons (say in for loop) and while handling I should be able to differentiate different btns. (may be get elements id)

Answer 1

You need not repeat same code for all. You can try out a generic listener, like :

private OnClickListener mCorkyListener = new OnClickListener() { 
    public void Click(View v) {
            // do something
    } 
}; 

Then all you have to do is register all three buttons to use this mCorkyListener. That is, inside onCreate(),

Button firstbtn  = (Button) findViewById(R.id.firstbtn); 
Button secondbtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.secondbtn); 
Button thirdbtn  = (Button) findViewById(R.id.thirdbtn); 

firstbtn.setOnClickListener(mCorkyListener);
secondbtn.setOnClickListener(mCorkyListener);
thirdbtn.setOnClickListener(mCorkyListener);

Answer 2

Look here for code samples. You have to use findViewById to "find" you r buttons though.