OnItemClickListener doesn't work with ListView item containing button

I have ListView with custom Adapter which supplies View to ListView in this way:

   public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
   {
        RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lineParams;
        RelativeLayout line=new RelativeLayout(context);

        TextView tv=new TextView(context);
        tv.setText("Text in postion="+i);
        lineParams=new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        lineParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_LEFT);
        line.addView(tv, lineParams);
        lineParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_IN_PARENT);

        //checkbox
        CheckBox checkBox=new CheckBox(context);
        lineParams=new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        lineParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_RIGHT);
        lineParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_IN_PARENT);
        line.addView(checkBox, lineParams);
        return line;
    }

And somewhere inside ListView there's setOnItemClickListener(), which should intercept item clicking events. My problem that, whenever I try to add checkbox to item - I don't get any responces from my ListView. If I skip CheckBox or any other Button it works.

I am really stuck with this problem, I have tried all kind of Layouts, aligning, wrapping and so on - useless. Looks like CheckBox interferes ListView item click events.

Any ideas how to overcome?


just add this line into the item views instead of listView itself

android:focusable="false"

check more detail about this from Android custom ListView unable to click on items


If you have ImageButtons inside the list item, you need to add:

android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"

to the root list item element [such as the root layout].

Then within each ImageButton in the list item, you need to add:

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

This worked for me - but I was using ImageButtons, not the standard button.


I have also faced the same issue I have tried to set android:focusable="false" to listview but it don't work then I add this to listview item.. like in my listview item I have uesed Toggle button which was creating problem, I add android:focusable="false" to Toggle button and listview on item click listener start work again


Add following line to your listView

android:choiceMode="singleChoice"

or make sure to set following lines to your layout text fields

android:focusable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
android:clickable="false"