Question

I have a complex button which is made up of some layouts and Imagebuttons and then wrapped inside a Relativelayout for ease of use. The individual components work fine- I focus or click on one of the contained imagebuttons and it lights up as expected (drawable state list defines focus & click states).

Now I want this complex layout to behave as a unified button. I set

android:clickable="true" and android:focusable="true"

in the top-level layout. In all the sub-components I set

android:duplicateParentState="true" android:clickable="false" android:focusable="false". 

With this I get the expected behavior for touch cases- I touch the layout anywhere and all the contained components light up. However, focus does not work. Rolling the trackball now completely ignores the complex button.

Answer 1

It seems that you’ve done everything right with android:clicable and android:focusable flags. This logic should work. Try to explicitly declare the order of focus selection with android:nextFocus options.