Android onClick method doesn’t work on a custom view

I just had the same Problem – I created a custom view and when I registered a new Listener for it in the activity by calling v.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {...}); the listener just did not get called.

In my custom view I also overwrote the public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {...} method. The problem was that I did not call the method of the View class – super.onTouchEvent(event). That solved the problem. So if you are wondering why your listener does not get called you have probably forgotten to call the superclass’es onTouchEvent method

Here is a simple example:

private static class CustomView extends View implements View.OnClickListener {
    public CustomView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        super.onTouchEvent(event);   // this super call is important !!!
        // YOUR LOGIC HERE
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // DO SOMETHING HERE
    }
}