Android: ListView elements with multiple clickable buttons

Question

I've a ListView where every element in the list contains a TextView and two different Buttons. Something like this:

ListView
--------------------
[Text]
[Button 1][Button 2]
--------------------
[Text]
[Button 1][Button 2]
--------------------
... (and so on) ...

With this code I can create an OnItemClickListener for the whole item:

listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> list, View view, int position, long id) {
     Log.i(TAG, "onListItemClick: " + position);

     }

    }
});

However, I don't want the whole item to be clickable, but only the two buttons of each list element.

So my question is, how do I implement a onClickListener for these two buttons with the following parameters:

• int button (which button of the element has been clicked)
• int position (which is the element in the list on which the button click happened)

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Update: I found a solution as described in my answer below. Now I can click/tap the button via the touch screen. However, I can't manually select it with the trackball. It always selects the whole list item and from there goes directly to the next list item ignoring the buttons, even though I set .setFocusable(true) and setClickable(true) for the buttons in getView().

I also added this code to my custom list adapter:

@Override
public boolean  areAllItemsEnabled() {
    return false;   
}

@Override
public boolean isEnabled(int position) {
        return false;
}

This causes that no list item is selectable at all any more. But it didn't help in making the nested buttons selectable.

Anyone an idea?

Answer 1

The solution to this is actually easier than I thought. You can simply add in your custom adapter's getView() method a setOnClickListener() for the buttons you're using.

Any data associated with the button has to be added with myButton.setTag() in the getView() and can be accessed in the onClickListener via view.getTag()

I posted a detailed solution on my blog as a tutorial.

Answer 2

Probably you've found how to do it, but you can call ListView.setItemsCanFocus(true), and your buttons will catch focus...