How to prevent double code running by clicking twice fast to a button in Android

Question

If i click fast to my button in my Android app, it seems that code behind it runs twice. If i click my menu button twice the activity that has to be launch onclick just starts twice and i have to quit from it twice.

This is really annoying because if i click too fast for menu buttons i can load up a whole bunch of activities in the background and i must quit them one by one, so this is clearly a buggy state of my app i want to fix this.

What can i do with this issue?

I use simple onClickListeners and Buttons

EDIT:

Regarding to answers and comments my menu buttons look like this:

top20Button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
{
    public void onClick(View v)
    {
        favButton.setClickable(false);
        nearButton.setClickable(false);
        highlightedButton.setClickable(false);
        top20Button.setClickable(false);

        Intent i = new Intent();
        i.putExtra("showDialog", false);
        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
        i.setClass(Search.this, Top20.class);
        startActivity(i);
        finish();

    }
});

After all this correction its still the same :S When i click like a mad person multiple activites are on the history stack and i must quit multiple times.

Any suggestions ? What m i doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can Disable the view temporarily like this

public static void disableTemporarly(final View view) {

        view.setEnabled(false);
        view.post(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {

                view.setEnabled(true);
            }
        });
    }

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Edit:

The above solution will work fine. But it will become even better when using the power of Kotlin

1) Create the SafeClikc Listener

class SafeClickListener(
        private var defaultInterval: Int = 1000,
        private val onSafeCLick: (View) -> Unit
) : View.OnClickListener {

    private var lastTimeClicked: Long = 0

    override fun onClick(v: View) {
        if (SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - lastTimeClicked < defaultInterval) {
            return
        }
        lastTimeClicked = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime()
        onSafeCLick(v)
    }
}

2) Add extension function to make it works with any view, this will create a new SafeClickListener and delegate the work to it

fun View.setSafeOnClickListener(onSafeClick: (View) -> Unit) {

    val safeClickListener = SafeClickListener {
        onSafeClick(it)
    }
    setOnClickListener(safeClickListener)
}

3) Now it is very easy to use it

settingsButton.setSafeOnClickListener {
    showSettingsScreen()
}

Happy Kotlin ;)

Answer 2

 Button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener {  
   @Override
   public void onClick(final View v) {
        v.setEnabled(false);
        v.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
         @Override
         public void run() {
            v.setEnabled(true);
         }
        },150); //150 is in milliseconds
    }
 });