Android ImageView s onClickListener does not work

Question

I have an ImageView for which I wanted to implement the onClickListener  But when I click on the image  nothing happens  Event the Logcat does not show any errors   Following is my import statement   import android view View OnClickListener    Following is my layout code for the image    lt ImageView android id    id favorite icon       android src   drawable small star      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android layout gravity  top right  android paddingTop  63sp      android paddingRight  2sp     gt    Following is the code in my activity which defines the event handler for onClickListener   ImageView imgFavorite    ImageView  findViewById R id favorite icon   imgFavorite setClickable true   imgFavorite setOnClickListener new OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick View v                    Log i SystemSettings APP TAG           HomeActivity class getName     Entered onClick method                    Toast makeText v getContext                             The favorite list would appear on clicking this icon                           Toast LENGTH LONG  show                                Am I missing something  Any help would be appreciated   Thanks in advance

User · Answer

can you Try this and tell me what happens ?? :

JAVA :

ImageView imgFavorite = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.favorite_icon);
imgFavorite.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        Toast.makeText(YourActivityName.this,
                "The favorite list would appear on clicking this icon",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
});

or you should add this :

imgFavorite.setClickable(true);

KOTLIN :

imgFavorite.setOnClickListener { view ->
    Toast.makeText(this@YourActivityName, R.string.toast_favorite_list_would_appear, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
}
// either you make your imageView clickable programmatically
imgFavorite.clickable = true

// or via xml on your layout file
<ImageView .... android:clickable="true" />

User · Answer

Had the same problem  thanks for the Framelayout tip  I was using two overlapped images in a framelayout  the one at top was an alpha mask  to give the effect of soft borders   I set in the xml android clickable  true  for the image I wanted to launch the onClickListener  and android clickable  false  to the alpha mask

User · Answer

Try by passing the context instead of the application context  You can also add a log statement to check if the onClick method is ever run     imgFavorite setOnClickListener new OnClickListener              Override         public void onClick View v                Log d     My activity       OnClick is called                Toast makeText v getContext        lt - Line changed                      The favorite list would appear on clicking this icon                       Toast LENGTH LONG  show

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For inner classes to pass the reference of activity  I usually create a reference of activity in onCreate   and make it as a member  As inner classes have access to members of parent class you can get hold of your activity and thus its context   class MyClass extends Activity      private Activity thisActivity       Override protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState                thisActivity   this            Hope that helps

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Most possible cause of such issues can be some invisible view is on the top of view being clicked  which prevents the click event to trigger  So recheck your xml layout properly before searching anything vigorously online   PS  - In my case  a recyclerView was totally covering the layout and hence clicking on imageView was restricted

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Same Silly thing happed with me  I just copied one activity and pasted  Defined in Manifest  Open from MainActivity java but I was forgot that Copied Activity is getting some params in bundle and If I don t pass any params  just finished  So My Activity is getting started but finished at same moment  I had written Toast and found this silly mistake   P

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Ok   I managed to solve this tricky issue  The thing was like I was using FrameLayout  Don t know why but it came to my mind that may be the icon would be getting hidden behind some other view   I tried putting the icon at the end of my layout and now I am able to see the Toast as well as the Log   Thank you everybody for taking time to solve the issue   Was surely tricky

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The same thing is happening for me    The reason is  I have used a list view with margin Top so the data is starting from the bottom of the image  but the actual list view is overlapping on the image which is not visible  So even if we click on the image  the action is not performed  To fix this  I have made the list view start from the below the image so that it is not overlapping on the image itself

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Check if other view has the property match parent or fill parent  those properties may cover your ImageView which has shown in your RelativeLayout By the way the accepted answer does not work in my case

User · Answer

Actually I just used imgView bringToFront    and it helped

User · Answer

Well my solution was another one  or let s say  the bug was   I simply had another imageview with the same id in another  lt included   gt  twice-encapsuled xml layout  which was found before the one that i wanted to react on the click  Solution  Give one of them another id

User · Answer

Please Try this one   ImageView imageview1   findViewById R id imageView1   imageview1 setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener               Override          public void onClick View v                 Toast makeText YourActivity this   Here is your Text  Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

User · Answer

I defined an OnClickListener for ImageView as an OnClickListener for a button and it seems to be working fine  Here s what I had  Please try and let us know if it doesn t work   final ImageView imageview1    ImageView  findViewById R id imageView1    imageview1 setOnClickListener new Button OnClickListener          Override     public void onClick View v            try                Log i  MyTag   Image button is pressed  visible in LogCat               catch  Exception e                Log e TAG  e toString

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Add android onClick  clickEvent  to your image view    lt ImageView android id    id favorite icon       android src   drawable small star      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android layout gravity  top right  android paddingTop  63sp      android paddingRight  2sp      android onClick  clickEvent     gt    In your activity you can create a method with the same name  clickEvent View v    and that s it  You can see the log and the toast text too   public void clickEvent View v          Log i SystemSettings APP TAG           HomeActivity class getName     Entered onClick method        Toast makeText v getContext                 The favorite list would appear on clicking this icon               Toast LENGTH LONG  show

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As a beginner to android development  my issue wasn t any of these solutions  I had several problems  Firstly  I didn t realise that you had to use the bug symbol to use the debugger to hit breakpoints  Then I was silently getting an error in my on click listener  I was trying to pass something to a method  but the method required a float value  However in the ide  the method was shown as unused  It wasn t until I cast the value that the method was shown in the correct colour and wasn t marked as unused anymore  Not sure why I didn t get an error from trying to use a method with the wrong type   Also I had to add the android debuggable  quot true quot  to my manifest to get debugging to hit breakpoints

[android] Android ImageView's onClickListener does not work

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