How can I disable all views inside the layout?

Question

For example I have:

Answer 1

Although not quite the same as disabling views within a layout, it is worth mentioning that you can prevent all children from receiving touches (without having to recurse the layout hierarchy) by overriding the ViewGroup#onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent) method:

public class InterceptTouchEventFrameLayout extends FrameLayout {

    private boolean interceptTouchEvents;

    // ...

    public void setInterceptTouchEvents(boolean interceptTouchEvents) {
        this.interceptTouchEvents = interceptTouchEvents;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        return interceptTouchEvents || super.onInterceptTouchEvent(ev);
    }

}

Then you can prevent children from receiving touch events:

InterceptTouchEventFrameLayout layout = (InterceptTouchEventFrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.layout);
layout.setInterceptTouchEvents(true);

If you have a click listener set on layout, it will still be triggered.

Answer 2

  private void disableLL(ViewGroup layout){
    for (int i = 0; i < layout.getChildCount(); i++) {
        View child = layout.getChildAt(i);
        child.setClickable(false);
        if (child instanceof ViewGroup)
            disableLL((ViewGroup) child);
    }
}

and call method like this :

RelativeLayout rl_root = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.rl_root);
disableLL(rl_root);

Answer 3

I personally use something like this (vertical tree traversal using recursion)

fun ViewGroup.deepForEach(function: View.() -> Unit) {
    this.forEach { child ->
        child.function()
        if (child is ViewGroup) {
            child.deepForEach(function)
        }
    }
}

usage :

   viewGroup.deepForEach { isEnabled = false }

Answer 4

I improved the tütü response to properly disable EditText and RadioButton componentes. Besides, I'm sharing a way that I found to change the view visibility and add transparency in the disabled views.

private static void disableEnableControls(ViewGroup view, boolean enable){
    for (int i = 0; i < view.getChildCount(); i++) {
        View child = view.getChildAt(i);
        child.setEnabled(enable);
        if (child instanceof ViewGroup){
            disableEnableControls((ViewGroup)child, enable);
        }
        else if (child instanceof EditText) {
            EditText editText = (EditText) child;
            editText.setEnabled(enable);
            editText.setFocusable(enable);
            editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(enable);
        }
        else if (child instanceof RadioButton) {
            RadioButton radioButton = (RadioButton) child;
            radioButton.setEnabled(enable);
            radioButton.setFocusable(enable);
            radioButton.setFocusableInTouchMode(enable);
        }
    }
}

public static void setLayoutEnabled(ViewGroup view, boolean enable) {
    disableEnableControls(view, enable);
    view.setEnabled(enable);
    view.setAlpha(enable? 1f: 0.3f);
}

public static void setLayoutEnabled(ViewGroup view, boolean enable, boolean visibility) {
    disableEnableControls(view, enable);
    view.setEnabled(enable);
    view.setAlpha(enable? 1f: 0.3f);
    view.setVisibility(visibility? View.VISIBLE: View.GONE);
}

Answer 5

this one is recursive for ViewGroups

private void disableEnableControls(boolean enable, ViewGroup vg){
    for (int i = 0; i < vg.getChildCount(); i++){
       View child = vg.getChildAt(i);
       child.setEnabled(enable);
       if (child instanceof ViewGroup){ 
          disableEnableControls(enable, (ViewGroup)child);
       }
    }
}

Answer 6

tutu's answer is on the right track, but his recursion is a little awkward. I think this is cleaner:

private static void setViewAndChildrenEnabled(View view, boolean enabled) {
    view.setEnabled(enabled);
    if (view instanceof ViewGroup) {
        ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) view;
        for (int i = 0; i < viewGroup.getChildCount(); i++) {
            View child = viewGroup.getChildAt(i);
            setViewAndChildrenEnabled(child, enabled);
        }
    }
}