using onClick on TextView with selectable text - how to avoid double click?

Question

This is so strange, but if you put an onClickListener on a TextView (or non-editable EditText) which has android:textIsSelectable="true" - it needs not one tap, but two. I checked it on 3 phones and all of them perform onClick only after second tap.

Of course, if you make focusable="false" or android:textIsSelectable="false" it works from the 1st tap, but text selection doesn't work.

Please, help me with that issue

Answer 1

Use onTouchListener to detect clicks and redirect them to the container view:

textView.setOnTouchListener { _, event ->
    if (event.action == 1 && !textView.hasSelection()) {
        containerView.callOnClick()
    }
    false
}

This will keep the ability to select and unselect text without calling onClick event.

Answer 2

Set in XML to your TextView

android:textIsSelectable="true"

After that set onTouchListener to your TextView and in them do this:

if (motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) view.requestFocus(); 

It's set focus for every tap on TextView. After all set onClickListener to your TextView.

I have the same problem with a Holder for my custom RecyclerView.Adapter. So, i cut it for you if you need:

class RollHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnClickListener, View.OnTouchListener {

    private TextView textView;

    RollHolder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        textView = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.text_view);
        textView.setOnClickListener(this);
        textView.setOnTouchListener(this);
    }

    @Override //Слушатель нажатия
    public void onClick(View view) {
        switch (view.getId()){
            case R.id.text_view:
                //Do here that you need
                break;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
        switch (view.getId()){
            case R.id.text_view:
                if (motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) view.requestFocus();
                break;
        };
        return false;
    }
}