Android: Grid view with clickable grid items and nested views (buttons, checkboxes)

Question

Basically, I would like to implement a GridView wherein the items themselves are clickable, but within the GridView are clickable Button

Answer 1

This post is old, but just for reference/googlers, I have the following solution:

You need to write all the events for buttons, checkboxes in getView of the imageAdapter only. Then in your layout.xml file under the gridview tag add these lines:

android:clickable="true"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"

and add these lines to your button and checkboxes:

android:focusable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

And if you want some other activity to start if any other area of the gridview item is clicked/touched you would need to use the (standard code)/(your own matching implementation):

GridView gridview = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.gridview);
    gridview.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this));

    gridview.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int position, long id) {
            Toast.makeText(HelloGridView.this, "" + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }

Cheers, });

Answer 2

You can make an item xml and use it as your gridView item. Then with an adapter initialize the buttons and checkboxes in your gridView. After you can add your clickListener not to the gridView items, but to the layout in the item xml, so it's child views won't respond to the click event.