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I have a layout that contains a ListView and a few buttons in a RelativeLayout. I am trying to let the user draw on the page using a custom paint view layout. The good news is that I've got nearly everything working and looking how it should, however the last and most frustrating issue is that the ListView is no longer clickable at all. I would like to paint on top of the the ListView AND make it clickable.

The funny part is that the buttons on the page are still clickable, just the items in the ListView are not. I think what is happening is that the ListView is loaded by an adapter and gets loaded first (thus behind everything). What do I need to do in order to make the ListView clickable?

I've tried adding android:focusableInTouchMode="true" android:focusable="true" but it made no difference.

My layout is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@drawable/background"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<ListView android:id="@+id/lv"
 android:layout_height="match_parent"
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 ></ListView>

 <com.my.app.PaintView
 android:id="@+id/paintView"
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="match_parent" />


<Button
 Buttons Here.../>

</RelativeLayout>

The focusable attribute should be false for the element you do not want to receive touch events. To overlay your PaintView without having it intercept touch events, you can add a few XML attributes to it:

<com.my.app.PaintView
 ...
 android:focusable="false"
 android:clickable="false" />

As long as you don't set an OnClickListener or an OnTouchListener to your PaintView, touch events should simply pass through it to the Views behind it.

Managed to find a solution that works perfectly (at least for me). I imagine without the listview this would have been far easier, but I wanted the listview to work as well as drawing on the canvas. All I ended up having to do was set an onTouchListener in the main activity that had the ListView, then send it to the PaintView with the MotionEvent. Simple and it works perfectly:

 listview.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() 
 @Override
 public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) 
 paintView.onTouchEvent(motionEvent);

 return false;
 
 );

In this example, the paintView.onTouchEvent could really be any method in the custom view, just kept it at "onTouchEvent" for simplicity.