How to make a RecyclerView not clickable and pass onClick event to parent view?

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Is it possible to make a RecyclerView not clickable? I want this because my RecyclerView just shows some small icons, within a clickable CardView. So if someone taps the icons, it should just click (and animate) the parent CardView instead.

I have tried the following:

  1. recyclerView.setClickable(false);
  2. recyclerView.setFocusable(false);
  3. Extend RecyclerView and make onTouchEvent(MotionEvent) return false.
  4. Use method 3 above and use itemView.setClickable(false); in the RecyclerView Adapter. This works, the click is sent to the parent. However, now the RecyclerView is not scrollable anymore.
  5. Set clickable="false", focusable="false", focusableInTouchMode="false" in inflated list item XML. (See comment @Ibrahim)
  6. Call recyclerView#setLayoutFrozen(true) and itemView.setClickable(false);. This works, but has the same issue as #4.

Any ideas how to disable and pass through the click events of the RecyclerView to the parent view? Note that the RecyclerView still needs to be scrollable (horizontal).


EDIT:
User @c.dunlap suggested to set OnClick listeners to the icons, and just "redirect" the click to the parent's click action. This would work, but there won't be a click animation on the parent view. And if someone clicks outside an itemView - but still inside the RecyclerView (e.g. ItemDecoration padding) - the click is not detected. So unfortunately this is not a solution.

android-recyclerview android-layout android java
3 Answers

You should extend the parent View and intercept the click, so the recyclerview doesn't receive it.

@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    return true;
}

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