Disable OnClickListener Android

Question

I have an OnClickListener on an image in my app. It allows the user to skip to a different part of the app if desired. The way the app runs, they can only use it 3 times.

My issue is, I want to get fancy pants. So I added an R.anim.fade_out animation to make the image fade out after all 3 times were used. I am using a counter decreased by one in another method.

The issue is, when the original method is recalled, it throws a Null Reference Exception because it can't find the image to set the OnClickListener. I tried wrapping it in an If/Else If statement:

if(skipsAllowed > 0){

            skipButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){

                public void onClick(View v){

                    if(skipsAllowed > 0){
                        try {
                            skippedPage();
                        } catch (IOException e) {
                            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                    }

                }
            });

        }else  if(skipsAllowed == 0){
            skipFadeOut = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(null, android.R.anim.fade_out);
            skipButton.startAnimation(skipFadeOut);
        }

This still didn't work. Any ideas on how to stop this?

I instantiate the ImageView at the start of every new call to this Activity, should I be placing that inside my If/Else If?

Answer 1

Simple: skipButton.setOnClickListener(null)