setError alongwith onClick for EditText

Question

Normal error displayed using setError() method:

Problem:

Okay so I have another EditText in same dialog having an OnClickListener for showing the DatePicker dialog. When I setError() it shows the red alert icon and when I click on that icon, the event is still handled by OnClick on EditText and DatePicker pops up, hence I cannot view the error message.

What I want : If I click on the icon, it must show the error message, and if I click outside the icon it should show the DatePicker.

Answer 1

Oh man, I literally had this problem 2 days ago. I found no way to make it both HAVE focus (in order to display the message, AND also create a pop-up of the date picker. What I ended up doing is wrapping EditText into a TextInputLayout like this:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
            android:id="@+id/birthDateInputLayout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/input_birth_date"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="@string/birth_date_hint"
                android:inputType="date" />
        </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

And then instead of setting the error on the edit text, I set the error on the TextInputLayout instead like this:

birthDateInputLayout.setErrorEnabled(true);
birthDateInputLayout.setError("This field cannot be empty.");

NOTE: It does not look exactly the same as the regular way of setting error on EditText, but it does look nice enough and solves the problem a bit differently.

Here's a screenshot of how it looks: