how to disable an item in my ListView

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I have a ListView set in my AlertDialog in Android and i'm trying to add separators as heading titles to help organize the information. I figured out how to display them... but they are still selectable by the user which isn't good.

Is there a way to disable an item to be selectable in an Android ListView? I found an method isEnabled(int position) to see if an item is enabled or not but none to see if its disabled.

if you can post your code.. it will help us answering your questions.. — ngesh, Aug 16 '11 at 06:03
@jfisk: See this post, may be it is of any help; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966802/android-listview-headers — Mudassir, Aug 16 '11 at 06:24

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '11 at 06:31

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Just Now i have implemented it

ListView list=new ListView(this);
list.getChildAt(0).setEnabled(false);

answered Aug 16 '11 at 06:31

Tofeeq Ahmad

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sorry, i try this, but error 08-06 20:36:29.045: E/AndroidRuntime(31116): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.imotax/com.imotax.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException – yozawiratama Aug 06 '13 at 13:38

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 16 '11 at 06:12

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override this in ur code to disable the focus.

         @Override
         public boolean isEnabled(int position) {
            return false;
           }

answered Aug 16 '11 at 06:12

Randroid

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cesards · Answer 3 · 2014-05-10T12:28:00.857

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I've found a lot of comments saying that

setEnabled(false)
setClickable(false)
setFocusable(false)

would work, but the answer is NO

The only workaround for this approach is doing:

view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.row_storage_divider, parent, false);
view.setOnClickListener(null);

edited May 10 '14 at 12:28

answered Mar 14 '14 at 10:39

cesards

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Answer by Randroid works for me. setOnClickListener(null) works but means you cannot get back to having a listener again. Extending ArrayAdapter is the correct answer i believe. – JohnyTex Jul 14 '16 at 10:49

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 16 '11 at 06:27

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setClickable(False) works fine for me . try it once . in case problem will be persist i will share my custom adapter with you.

answered Aug 16 '11 at 06:27

Shailendra Singh Rajawat

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how to disable an item in my ListView

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