Android: ListView elements with multiple clickable buttons

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I've a ListView where every element in the list contains a TextView and two different Buttons. Something like this:

ListView
--------------------
[Text]
[Button 1][Button 2]
--------------------
[Text]
[Button 1][Button 2]
--------------------
... (and so on) ...

With this code I can create an OnItemClickListener for the whole item:

listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> list, View view, int position, long id) {
        Log.i(TAG, "onListItemClick: " + position);

        }

    }
});

However, I don't want the whole item to be clickable, but only the two buttons of each list element.

So my question is, how do I implement a onClickListener for these two buttons with the following parameters:

int button (which button of the element has been clicked)
int position (which is the element in the list on which the button click happened)

Update: I found a solution as described in my answer below. Now I can click/tap the button via the touch screen. However, I can't manually select it with the trackball. It always selects the whole list item and from there goes directly to the next list item ignoring the buttons, even though I set .setFocusable(true) and setClickable(true) for the buttons in getView().

I also added this code to my custom list adapter:

@Override
public boolean  areAllItemsEnabled() {
    return false;           
}

@Override
public boolean isEnabled(int position) {
        return false;
}

This causes that no list item is selectable at all any more. But it didn't help in making the nested buttons selectable.

Anyone an idea?

Best Answer

The solution to this is actually easier than I thought. You can simply add in your custom adapter's getView() method a setOnClickListener() for the buttons you're using.

Any data associated with the button has to be added with myButton.setTag() in the getView() and can be accessed in the onClickListener via view.getTag()

I posted a detailed solution on my blog as a tutorial.

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