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A debounced onClickListener for Android
import android.os.SystemClock;
import android.view.View;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.WeakHashMap;
/**
* A Debounced OnClickListener
* Rejects clicks that are too close together in time.
* This class is safe to use as an OnClickListener for multiple views, and will debounce each one separately.
*/
public abstract class DebouncedOnClickListener implements View.OnClickListener {
private final long minimumInterval;
private Map<View, Long> lastClickMap;
/**
* Implement this in your subclass instead of onClick
* @param v The view that was clicked
*/
public abstract void onDebouncedClick(View v);
/**
* The one and only constructor
* @param minimumIntervalMsec The minimum allowed time between clicks - any click sooner than this after a previous click will be rejected
*/
public DebouncedOnClickListener(long minimumIntervalMsec) {
this.minimumInterval = minimumIntervalMsec;
this.lastClickMap = new WeakHashMap<View, Long>();
}
@Override public void onClick(View clickedView) {
Long previousClickTimestamp = lastClickMap.get(clickedView);
long currentTimestamp = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
lastClickMap.put(clickedView, currentTimestamp);
if(previousClickTimestamp == null || (currentTimestamp - previousClickTimestamp.longValue() > minimumInterval)) {
onDebouncedClick(clickedView);
}
}
}
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ghost commented Mar 23, 2018

Excellent

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Thanks.

Made a small kotlin remake, ready for production: https://gist.github.com/97aed21a2633bceae13261c1c5948cbd

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rfreedman commented Jun 18, 2019 via email

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Zarar089 commented Apr 27, 2022

I used this and it worked for regular events, but when my click event triggers an adapter.notifyDataSetChanged call, the previousClickStamp gets reset.

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