Android button has setOnTouchListener called on it but does not override performClick

Question

This warning comes up because Android wants to remind you to think about the blind or visually impaired people who may be using your app. I suggest you watch this video for a quick overview about what that is like.

The standard UI views (like Button, TextView, etc.) are all set up to provide blind users with appropriate feedback through Accessibility services. When you try to handle touch events yourself, you are in danger of forgetting to provide that feedback. This is what the warning is for.

Option 1: Create a custom view

Handling touch events is normally something that is done in a custom view. Don't dismiss this option too quickly. It's not really that difficult. Here is a full example of a TextView that is overridden to handle touch events:

public class CustomTextView extends AppCompatTextView {

    public CustomTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public CustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        super.onTouchEvent(event);

        switch (event.getAction()) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                return true;

            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                performClick();
                return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    // Because we call this from onTouchEvent, this code will be executed for both
    // normal touch events and for when the system calls this using Accessibility
    @Override
    public boolean performClick() {
        super.performClick();
        doSomething();
        return true;
    }

    private void doSomething() {
        Toast.makeText(getContext(), "did something", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

Then you would just use it like this:

<com.example.myapp.CustomTextView
    android:id="@+id/textview"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="20dp"
    android:text="Click me to do something"/>

See my other answer for more details about making a custom view.

Option 2: Silencing the warning

Other times it might be better to just silence the warning. For example, I'm not sure what it is you want to do with a Button that you need touch events for. If you were to make a custom button and called performClick() in onTouchEvent like I did above for the custom TextView, then it would get called twice every time because Button already calls performClick().

Here are a couple reasons you might want to just silence the warning:

• The work you are performing with your touch event is only visual. It doesn't affect the actual working of your app.
• You are cold-hearted and don't care about making the world a better place for blind people.
• You are too lazy to copy and paste the code I gave you in Option 1 above.

Add the following line to the beginning of the method to suppress the warning:

@SuppressLint("ClickableViewAccessibility")

For example:

@SuppressLint("ClickableViewAccessibility")
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    Button myButton = findViewById(R.id.my_button);
    myButton.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
            return false;
        }
    });
}

Solution:

1. Create a class that extends Button or whatever view you are using and override performClick()

   class TouchableButton extends Button {
   
       @Override
       public boolean performClick() {
           // do what you want
           return true;
       }
   }
   

2. Now use this TouchableButton in xml and/or code and the warning will be gone!

Have you tried adding :

view.performClick()

or adding suppresslint annotation :

@SuppressLint("ClickableViewAccessibility")

?

Custom view controls may require non-standard touch event behavior. For example, a custom control may use the onTouchEvent(MotionEvent) listener method to detect the ACTION_DOWN and ACTION_UP events and trigger a special click event. In order to maintain compatibility with accessibility services, the code that handles this custom click event must do the following:

Generate an appropriate AccessibilityEvent for the interpreted click action. Enable accessibility services to perform the custom click action for users who are not able to use a touch screen. To handle these requirements in an efficient way, your code should override the performClick() method, which must call the super implementation of this method and then execute whatever actions are required by the click event. When the custom click action is detected, that code should then call your performClick() method.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/accessibility/custom-views#custom-touch-events