Android Question No label click event after changing Targetsdkversion to 26

Bryan Joyce said:

I upgraded my targetsdkversion to 26 and now I can't get click events on my labels. I assume this is a runtime permission but am not sure how to correct it. Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks,
Bryan

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I doubt that it's a runtime permission issue. Can you post the relevant code?

- Colin.

Thanks for the reply. I will try to reproduce it with a simple program but it works on 18 and with no other changes does not work on 26

It is not related to permissions. Might be related to a different theme.

Thanks. I posted too quickly without doing enough troubleshooting. In trying to reproduce the problem in a simple piece of code I found the issue. I had an invisible button in the background to prevent all click events getting to another component and the label on top of that. With the new version of the targetSDKversion it seems buttons can never be anything but the top layer and you can't get a click event for anything that is put on top of them. Actually you can't put anything on top of them at all. This invisible button took the events. Solution was to put the label on a panel. Thanks for the replies

In the material theme, buttons have an elevation of 2dip.

You don't need to use a button to consume touch events. Use a transparent panel and handle its Click or Touch event.