[android] Setting onClickListener for the Drawable right of an EditText

In my app I have a EditText with a search Icon on the right side. I used the code given below.

 <EditText
        android:id="@+id/search"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_margin="4dip"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="@drawable/textfield_search1"
        android:drawableLeft="@drawable/logo"
        android:drawableRight="@drawable/search_icon"
        android:hint="Search Anything..."
        android:padding="4dip"
        android:singleLine="true" />

I want to set the onClickListener for the search icon image assigned to the right drawable of EditText. How is it possible?

I know this is quite old, but I recently had to do something very similar, and came up with a much simpler solution.

It boils down to the following steps:

1. Create an XML layout that contains the EditText and Image
2. Subclass FrameLayout and inflate the XML layout
3. Add code for the click listener and any other behavior you want... without having to worry about positions of the click or any other messy code.

See this post for the full example: Handling click events on a drawable within an EditText

Simple Solution, use methods that Android has already given, rather than reinventing wheeeeeeeeeel :-)

editComment.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            final int DRAWABLE_LEFT = 0;
            final int DRAWABLE_TOP = 1;
            final int DRAWABLE_RIGHT = 2;
            final int DRAWABLE_BOTTOM = 3;

            if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                if(event.getRawX() >= (editComment.getRight() - editComment.getCompoundDrawables()[DRAWABLE_RIGHT].getBounds().width())) {
                    // your action here

                 return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

This has been already answered but I tried a different way to make it simpler.

The idea is using putting an ImageButton on the right of EditText and having negative margin to it so that the EditText flows into the ImageButton making it look like the Button is in the EditText.

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal">
        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editText"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:hint="Enter Pin"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:textSize="25sp"
            android:paddingRight="60dp"
            />
        <ImageButton
            android:id="@+id/pastePin"
            android:layout_marginLeft="-60dp"
            style="?android:buttonBarButtonStyle"
            android:paddingBottom="5dp"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_action_paste"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
    </LinearLayout>

Also, as shown above, you can use a paddingRight of similar width in the EditText if you don't want the text in it to be flown over the ImageButton.

I guessed margin size with the help of android-studio's layout designer and it looks similar across all screen sizes. Or else you can calculate the width of the ImageButton and set the margin programatically.

Please use below trick:

• Create an image button with your icon and set its background color to be transparent.
• Put the image button on the EditText
• Implement the 'onclic'k listener of the button to execute your function

You don't have access to the right image as far my knowledge, unless you override the onTouch event. I suggest to use a RelativeLayout, with one editText and one imageView, and set OnClickListener over the image view as below:

<RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/rlSearch"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@android:drawable/edit_text"
        android:padding="5dip" >

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/txtSearch"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/imgSearch"
            android:background="#00000000"
            android:ems="10"/>

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/imgSearch"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:src="@drawable/btnsearch" />
    </RelativeLayout>