Disable click/touch for some of a RecyclerView's items

Question

Is there a way to prevent clicking in a specific item of a recycler view? Already tried to set the view as not clickable and not enabled in the view holder constructor but still

Answer 1

Probably the easiest way to completely block interaction with anything inside a single item is to put a transparent view over it that intercepts all touch events. You'd do this by wrapping your existing itemView layout in a FrameLayout and adding another view on top of that:

<FrameLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <!-- your itemView content here -->

    <View
        android:id="@+id/overlay"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

</FrameLayout>

Inside onCreateViewHolder(), you can assign a no-op click listener to the overlay:

@Override
public MyViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext());
    View itemView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.itemview, parent, false);
    MyViewHolder holder = new MyViewHolder(itemView);

    holder.overlay.setOnClickListener(v -> {});

    return holder;
}

Now, when you want to disable clicks, you can call

holder.overlay.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

and when you want to disable them, you can call

holder.overlay.setVisibility(View.GONE);