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curioustechizen / EnhancedCheckBox.java
Last active September 14, 2020 05:50
Android programmatically checkable widgets, differentiate between user clicks & programmatic setChecked calls. Based on this answer on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14307643/570930. There are times when setting a switch to ON results in some action (Save to DB/ perform an HTTP POST etc). However, you want this action to happen only o…
/**
* An enhanced {@code CheckBox} that differentiates between user clicks and
* programmatic clicks. In particular, the {@code OnCheckedChangeListener} is
* <strong>not</strong> triggered when the state of the checkbox is changed
* programmatically.
*
*/
public class EnhancedCheckBox extends CheckBox implements ProgrammaticallyCheckable{
private CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener mListener = null;
public EnhancedCheckBox(Context context) {