How to handle button clicks using the XML onClick within Fragments

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Pre-Honeycomb (Android 3), each Activity was registered to handle button clicks via the onClick tag in a Layout's XML:

android:onClick="myClickMethod"

Within that method you can use view.getId() and a switch statement to do the button logic.

With the introduction of Honeycomb I'm breaking these Activities into Fragments which can be reused inside many different Activities. Most of the behavior of the buttons is Activity independent, and I would like the code to reside inside the Fragments file without using the old (pre 1.6) method of registering the OnClickListener for each button.

final Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_id);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // Perform action on click
    }
});

The problem is that when my layout's are inflated it is still the hosting Activity that is receiving the button clicks, not the individual Fragments. Is there a good approach to either

Register the fragment to receive the button clicks?
Pass the click events from the Activity to the fragment they belong to?

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I would rather go for the click handling in code than using the onClick attribute in XML when working with fragments.

This becomes even easier when migrating your activities to fragments. You can just call the click handler (previously set to android:onClick in XML) directly from each case block.

findViewById(R.id.button_login).setOnClickListener(clickListener);
...

OnClickListener clickListener = new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(final View v) {
        switch(v.getId()) {
           case R.id.button_login:
              // Which is supposed to be called automatically in your
              // activity, which has now changed to a fragment.
              onLoginClick(v);
              break;

           case R.id.button_logout:
              ...
        }
    }
}

When it comes to handling clicks in fragments, this looks simpler to me than android:onClick.

answered 2012-09-27T05:22:50.580

How to handle button clicks using the XML onClick within Fragments

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