Android: long click on a button -> perform actions

Question

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!

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.