This looks easy, but I'm not able to disable an ImageButton
. It continues to receive click events, and its appearance don't change like a standard Button would.
There are some similar questions on SO, but they don't help me.
Even with a very simple layout like this :
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ImageButton
android:id="@+id/btn_call"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:clickable="false"
android:enabled="false"
android:src="@android:drawable/sym_action_call" />
</LinearLayout>
The button is still enabled and I can click it.
What's strange is that if I change the ImageButton
to a simple Button
, then it works as expected. The button becomes disabled and unclickable. I don't understand. Does anyone have an idea?
ImageButton
has different inheritance chain meaning it does not extend Button
:
ImageButton
< ImageView
< View
It continues to receive click events
Here is what happens when you set a click listener for the View
:
public void setOnClickListener(OnClickListener l) {
if (!isClickable()) {
setClickable(true);
}
mOnClickListener = l;
}
So if you set a listener the android:clickable="false"
changes to android:clickable="true"
.
and its appearance don't change like a standard Button would
You should supply a drawable state list to the view so it could set an appropriate image based on android:enabled
. Do you have this? Or you have the only image for your button?
EDIT: You can find info on StateListDrawable here. android:state_enabled
is what you need to use in the list in order to tell the OS what image to use for that state.
EDIT2: Since you really need to add a listener you can make a check inside of the listener if (!isEnabled()) { return; } else { /* process the event */ }
.