How to catch a click event on a button?

Question

.NET Developer here just getting started with Eclipse and Android.

Can someone show me in the simplest way possible, with the absolute fewest lines of code, how to D

Answer 1

The absolutely best way: Just let your activity implement View.OnClickListener, and write your onClick method like this:

public void onClick(View v) {
    final int id = v.getId();
    switch (id) {
    case R.id.button1:
        // your code for button1 here
        break;
    case R.id.button2:
        // your code for button2 here
        break;
    // even more buttons here
    }
}

Then, in your XML layout file, you can set the click listeners directly using the attribute android:onClick:

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button1"
    android:onClick="onClick"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Button 1" />

That is the most cleanest way of how to do it. I use it in all of mine projects today, as well.