[android] Android - setOnClickListener vs OnClickListener vs View.OnClickListener

View is the superclass for all widgets and the OnClickListener interface belongs to this class. All widgets inherit this. View.OnClickListener is the same as OnClickListener. You would have to override the onClick(View view) method from this listener to achieve the action that you want for your button.

To tell Android to listen to click events for a widget, you need to do:

widget.setOnClickListener(this); // If the containing class implements the interface
// Or you can do the following to set it for each widget individually
widget.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        // Do something here
    }
});

The 'View' parameter passed in the onClick() method simply lets Android know that a view has been clicked. It can be a Button or a TextView or something else. It is up to you to set an OnClickListener for every widget or to simply make the class containing all these widgets implement the interface. In this case you will have a common onClick() method for all the widgets and all you have to do is to check the id of the view that is passed into the method and then match that against the id for each element that you want and take action for that element.