convertView loses onitemClick after the listView is scrolled

Question

I'm having a slightly weird error here on my adapter. The view the adapter is creating is a thumbnail on the left side and a table with a few rows. Each row have two textviews.

One of the textviews have the android:autoLink="web" property set and the listview have an onItemClickListener on it.

the problem is that every time a TextView auto-links it's content, next time its parent view is converted, it doesn't receive clicks from the onItemClickListener anymore.

Let me clarify with an example:

• view1, view2, view3 and view4 are on the list view on the screen.
• view2 have a link and it appears, and onClick the link opens.
• the item click works normally for view1, view 3 and view4.
• scroll the listview and view1 is converted to position5 and then view2 is converted to position6.
• the item at position6 does not contain a link, but the onItemClick is also not fired for the position6 element.

the autolink feature of the textview is certainly changing something with my layout, but I don't know what. There must a property I can reset for every call to getView on my adapter, but which?

thanks for any help.

edit

let's see some code, it's pretty standard/good practices. the getView from my adapter is: @Override public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    // Inflate a new layout if needed
    if (convertView == null)
        convertView = createNewView();

    // Gets the item from my array
    AGplus item = (AGplus) getItem(position);
    // Gets the holder pointing to the views
    Holder h = (Holder) convertView.getTag();
    // That's a test version, I won't be using date.toString() later on
    h.date.setText(new Date(item.getDate()).toString());
    // This guys is giving me a headache,
    // If it parses the link, I can't never click on this convertView anymore,
    // event re-converting them for a text that does not contain links
    h.txt.setText(item.getTitle());


    // some image download stuff that doesn't matter for this code

    return convertView;
    }

that layouts used is a image and table and the amount of rows I inflate and insert on the table varies for each adapter. The table layout is a horizontal linear layout with a imageview and the table layout with some margin stuff and here is the row layout:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <TableRow xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/title"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
            android:textColor="@color/text" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/text"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:autoLink="web"
            android:text=""
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
            android:textColor="@color/text" />

    </TableRow>

if I completely remove the android:autoLink="web" I get all the clicks, but as stated before, once a view gets "auto-linked" and then I recycle that view, I can't get clicks on that view again.

edit

and here is the layout inflation:

    private View createNewView() {

    // Instantiate view
    View v = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.expandable_child_view, null);
    TableLayout table = (TableLayout) v.findViewById(R.id.table);
    Holder h = new Holder();
    v.setTag(h);

    // Instantiate rows
    h.thumb = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.img);
    h.date = (TextView) createNewRow(table, "Date: ");
    h.txt = (TextView) createNewRow(table, "Text: ");
    return v;
    }

    private View createNewRow(ViewGroup group, String title) {
    View row;
    row = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.item_table_row, null);
    ((TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.title)).setText(title);
    group.addView(row);
    return row.findViewById(R.id.text);
    }

and before someone else asks, that's the expandable_child_view layout:

    <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/frame"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:gravity="center_vertical" >

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/img"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="40dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />

        <TableLayout
            android:id="@+id/table"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent" >
        </TableLayout>
    </LinearLayout>

as I said before, just a linear layout with a imageview and a table and a few margins.

Answer 1

According to Romain Guy here, this is done by design to support trackball/dpad navigation. Comment 27 has a workaround to it, by setting descendant focusability on each listview item:

setDescendantFocusability(FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS);

or

android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"

Answer 2

I think I know what may be going on. When you do setText(), sometimes it'll wipe out a lot of stuff. You may have to use a ClickableSpan to put the link action back into the textview.