Long Press Material Design Button Allows Pasting into Button Label

Question

Background

I have a standard Material Design button, as per below

Answer 1

That behavior is not exclusive to AppCompatButtons, it seems. It stems from the fact that Button is a subclass of TextView, and what's actually triggering that behavior in your case is the capitalize attribute in your custom style. When this is set to anything other than none, it causes TextView's internal Editor to become active and respond to long clicks.

In fact, it appears that any attribute setting that causes the Button to have an input type other than the default will cause this. These attributes include - but are not limited to - capitalize, digits, autoText, and, obviously, any inputType other than none. The textIsSelectable attribute will cause a little havoc, too, in that the Button will act like an un-editable EditText. The cursor and selection handle(s) will appear, along with the editing CAB when appropriate, but no input method, and the Button becomes un-clickable.

These are clearly not attributes you would normally be setting on a Button, but this definitely seems like a bug to me, since Button probably shouldn't, in any way, allow itself to become editable. Indeed, in certain states, pasting text, then shifting focus or clicking causes the Editor to crash. If this is unintended behavior (the pasting, not the crashing), it's been wrongly implemented for some time, as far as I can tell.

To remedy this, you should remove the capitalize attribute from your style, and just handle that yourself when you set the text on the Button. Alternatively, if you don't need to respond to long clicks on your Buttons, you could set the longClickable attribute in your style to false.

Unfortunately, simply setting the (deprecated) editable attribute to false doesn't seem to be a fix, if combined with any of the other above-mentioned, problematic attributes.