setEnabled() vs setClickable(), what is the difference? setEnabled() vs setClickable(), what is the difference? android android

setEnabled() vs setClickable(), what is the difference?


What the hell is that mean?

Quoting the Wikipedia page for "GUI widget":

In the context of an application, a widget may be enabled or disabled at a given point in time. An enabled widget has the capacity to respond to events, such as keystrokes or mouse actions. A widget that cannot respond to such events is considered disabled. The appearance of disabled widget is typically different from an enabled widget; the disabled widget may be drawn in a lighter color, or may be visually obscured in some way. See the image to the right for an example.

This concept has been around for a couple of decades and can be found in most GUI frameworks.

what is the difference between enable state/clickable state and disabled state/ not clickable state?

In Android, a widget that is not clickable will not respond to click events. A disabled widget not only is not clickable, but it also visually indicates that it is disabled.

what do you mean by: "..since it makes the Button visually "disabled"? how does it changes it visually?

What makes a Button look and respond like a Button is its background, which is a StateListDrawable. There is a specific image used for the disabled state.


A big difference I don't see mentioned elsewhere is with overlapping Views. A View with clickable=true and enabled=false won't allow you to press a View behind it. But a View with clickable=false will allow you to press a View behind it.


So basically an enabled false doesn't respond to any response and an clickable false still response when set at runtime and trust me I just tried it.