Android long click on a button - perform actions

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I want to use the same button to perform 2 different methods  One method when user single clicks it and a second method  different  when the user LONG clicks it   I use this for the single short click  which works great    Button downSelected    Button  findViewById R id downSelected           downSelected setOnClickListener new OnClickListener                 public void onClick View v                    method                                                   I ve tried to add a longClickListener but it didn t work   Appreciate any ideas on how to solve this   Thanks

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Initially when i implemented a longClick and a click to perform two separate events the problem i face was that when i had a longclick   the application also performed the action to be performed for a simple click   The solution i realized was to change the return type of the longClick to true which is normally false by default   Change it and it works perfectly

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Change return false  to return true  in longClickListener You long click the button  if it returns true then it does the work  If it returns false then it does it s work and also calls the short click and then the onClick also works

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Try using an ontouch listener instead of a clicklistener    http   developer android com reference android view View OnTouchListener html

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I ve done it before  I just used   down setOnLongClickListener new OnLongClickListener               Override         public boolean onLongClick View v                   TODO Auto-generated method stub             return true                      Per documentation      public void setOnLongClickListener    View OnLongClickListener l       Since  API Level 1 Register a callback   to be invoked when this view is   clicked and held  If this view is not   long clickable  it becomes long   clickable    Notice that it requires to return a boolean  this should work

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To get both functions working for a clickable image that will respond to both short and long clicks  I tried the following that seems to work perfectly       image    ImageView  findViewById R id imageViewCompass       image setOnClickListener new OnClickListener             public void onClick View v                shortclick                            image setOnLongClickListener new View OnLongClickListener         public boolean onLongClick View v            longclick            return true                Then the functions that are called    public void shortclick      Toast makeText this   Why did you do that  That hurts      Toast LENGTH LONG  show         public void longclick      Toast makeText this   Why did you do that  That REALLY hurts      Toast LENGTH LONG  show         It seems that the easy way of declaring the item in XML as clickable and then defining a function to call on the click only applies to short clicks - you must have a listener to differentiate between short and long clicks

[android] Android: long click on a button -> perform actions

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