Question

I have a ListActivity in Android. Each row is just an item that starts another activity with some resource. By default this is of course a TextView.

I’d like (and by “I’d like”, I mean “the client insists”) that TextView to look like a button. If I actually make them Buttons, the default list click handler doesn’t work anymore – even if they’re non-focusable – so I have to write code to manually inflate the view containing the button and set a click handler.

Is there some way instead I can just make the TextView look like a Button without any of a Button’s behaviors?

Answer 1

You should be able to just set the style in the layout XML file.

See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html for a list of the built-in platform style. Not sure how well it would work, but its reasonably easy to do. Try this:

<TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content" style="@android:style/Widget.Button" android:layout_marginRight="5sp" android:text="" android:layout_width="fill_parent"></TextView>

EDIT: the issue is that the default button style sets the android:clickable attribute. Try and add the android:clickable attribute and set it to false:

<TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content" style="@android:style/Widget.Button" android:layout_marginRight="5sp" android:text="" android:clickable="false" android:layout_width="fill_parent"></TextView>