Question

Is it possible to disable Touch events for all the views inside a Layout by targetting the ParentLayout. I know this is possible by going through each individual view contained in the Layout but it would be very helpful if there was a way to do it for complete Layout. I have already tried the following but all in vain.

ParentLayout.setClickable(false);

ParentLayout.onFilterTouchEventForSecurity(event);

ParentLayout.onTouchEvent(event);

ParentLayout.setOnTouchListener(l);
... 

and others in similar fashion. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

1. Disable all touch event in parent view. dispatchTouchEvent() and
   onInterceptTouchEvent() can all achieve this goal.
2. Set android:duplicateParentState="true" to all child view, and set
   parent android:enable="false"