Making a Linearlayout Act Like an Button

Making a LinearLayout act like an Button

I ran into this problem just now. You'll have to set the LinearLayout to clickable. You can either do this in the XML with

android:clickable="true"

Or in code with

yourLinearLayout.setClickable(true);

How to Make LinearLayout Clickable

try this.. hope it works..

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_pressed="true" 
        android:drawable="#ff0000" />//ur onclick desired color 
    <item  android:state_focused="false" 
        android:drawable="@android:color/transparent" />focused color
   </selector>

just create new xml and add this code in drawable and set ur linear layoyut backgrout as its name like android:background="@drawable/createdxmlname"

<LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/optionlist" 
        android:layout_below="@id/divider"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:background="@drawable/createdxmlname"
        android:clickable="true">

Clickable LinearLayout in Android

If you look at your code.

You are calling

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_trainers);

after the linearlayout binding with click listener.

move these as the first line of the OnCreate

Put buttons at bottom of screen with LinearLayout?

You need to ensure four things:

• Your outside LinearLayout has layout_height="match_parent"
• Your inside LinearLayout has layout_weight="1" and layout_height="0dp"
• Your TextView has layout_weight="0"
• You've set the gravity properly on your inner LinearLayout: android:gravity="center|bottom"

Notice that fill_parent does not mean "take up all available space". However, if you use layout_height="0dp" with layout_weight="1", then a view will take up all available space (Can't get proper layout with "fill_parent").

Here is some code I quickly wrote up that uses two LinearLayouts in a similar fashion to your code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/db1_root"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="@string/cow"
        android:layout_weight="0"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dip"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="center|bottom"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button1"
            style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
            android:layout_width="145dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center"
            android:text="1" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button2"
            style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
            android:layout_width="145dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center"
            android:text="2" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button3"
            style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
            android:layout_width="145dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center"
            android:text="3" />
    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

The result looks like similar to this:

How to make LinearLayouts clickable

After trying and failing for hundred times I found the solution to my problem!

Instead of:

ly2.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() {

                @Override
                public boolean onLongClick(View arg0) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                    ly2.setTitle("Hello world!");
                    return false;
                }
            }); 

I should have written:

this.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onLongClick(View arg0) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            setTitle("Hello World");
            return true;
        }
    });

And I shouldn't have used android:clickable and android:longClickable for inflated XML(ali_layout.xml):

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/layout1"
    android:layout_width="200dp"
    android:layout_height="200dp"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_marginBottom="68dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="40dp"
    android:background="#E0D641"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

Finally, the problem solved ...

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