How to disable an Android button?

I have created a layout that contains two buttons, Next and Previous. In between the buttons I'm generating some dynamic views. So when I first launch the application I want to disable the "Previous" button since there wont be any previous views. I also want to disable the "Next" button when there are not more views to display. Is there anyway to disable the buttons?

Solution 1:

Did you try this?

myButton.setEnabled(false); 

Update: Thanks to Gwen. Almost forgot that android:clickable can be set in your XML layout to determine whether a button can be clickable or not.

Solution 2:

You can't enable it or disable it in your XML (since your layout is set at runtime), but you can set if it's clickable at the launch of the activity with android:clickable.

Solution 3:

Yes it can be disabled in XML just using:

<Button
android:enabled="false"
/>