Question

My question is simple: How to disable any event on a View in Android? (including removing its focussability, like I just want it to be there visually but be inexistant on everything else)
And does it work on a whole view tree? (like if I disable events on the root, all the events will be disabled for its children?).

Now, before you say anything I have tried all the following:

• setEnabled
• setFocusable
• setSelected
• setClickable
• setActivated

And none of these methods appear to work, seriously.

I have tried them directly on a WebView, as well as on the parent layout on everything but I am still able to interact with it.

Any idea?

Thanks!

EDIT#1

The solution that consists in adding a view on top of the view that needs to be disabled doesn’t work. Actually, it’s still possible to click on the inner view, I have tried with a simple example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    >
    <LinearLayout 
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:background="#ff0000">
        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:text="Click Me!"
        />
    </LinearLayout>

    <FrameLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="#00000000"
    />
</FrameLayout>

Here it’s still possible to click on the button.

EDIT#2

The reason why I want to do this is related to the following question that I asked weeks ago.

What I have is a ListViewacting as a navigation bar which is underneath a View that holds the content of my app. The problem with this implementation is that when I try to scroll through the ListView when there is a focusable view in the layer on top of it, well the ListView doesn’t scroll and instead it’s the top view that takes focus (That’s the case when there is a
Webview or an EditText etc.).

So yes as mentioned in one of the answers, I can disable any click events on a WebView by overriding setOnTouchListener but the view remains focussed and I think this is the reason why I am still having the same issue with my navigation bar.

Answer 1

Simply put a view on top of your view. You can toggle it on off by setting view.visibility = gone/visible.

<FrameLayout>
<WebView/>
<FrameLayout This view will be on top/>
</FrameLayout>

Edit: Just stumpled upon this link: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3856199/969325
Basically disables all touch event for the webview. Tryed that?

Edit 2 reedit: Try to set the visibility to gone for the the top view below your listview.