[android-developers] How can I prevent two buttons from being clicked at the same time?

Hi,

I have this issue (at least on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 running 3.2 and the Nexus 7).

E.g. I have a screen with more two buttons.

When i put two fingers down, one finger on one button, the other on the other button, at the same time, both buttons are clicked at the same time. I.e. the 'onClick' is called for both of them in rapid succession.

How can I prevent this reliably.

I tried using the 'android:splitMotionEvents="false"' on ViewGroups, on various spots in the hierarchy.

I tried calling the 'setMotionEventSplittingEnabled(false)' method for these buttons' parent.

All this doesn't work.

The OnClick handlers spawn fragments. However, calling 'fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(tag)' to see if a fragment has already been added doesn't work if the OnClick handlers are called too quickly after each other (I guess the commit hasn't finished properly before the second OnClick is being called). I could put an additional 'postDelayed' call to spawning these fragments, but this solution would be a hack.

Our app's targetSdk is set to 11 and we can't lower this. 

Is there a reliable or proper way to prevent a click of multiple buttons at the same time, e.g. a second button won't click when another finger is still down on the screen?

Thanks!

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