Q:

How to pass a view's onClick event to its parent on Android?

I have a TextView in a layout whos background is a Selector. And the TextView's text is set to Spanned from HTML.
Then I set the TextView with the LinkMovementMethod.
Now when I tap on the TextView, the click event is not sent to its parent layout to trigger the selector.
How should this be solved?

A:

Declare your TextView not clickable / focusable by using android:clickable="false" and android:focusable="false" or v.setClickable(false) and v.setFocusable(false). The click events should be dispatched to the TextView's parent now.
Note:
In order to achieve this, you have to add click to its direct parent. or set 
android:clickable="false" and android:focusable="false" to its direct parent to pass listener to further parent.

A:

I think you need to use one of those methods in order to be able to intercept the event before it gets sent to the appropriate components:
Activity.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent) - This allows your Activity to intercept all touch events before they are dispatched to the window.
ViewGroup.onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent) - This allows a ViewGroup to watch events as they are dispatched to child Views.
ViewParent.requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean) - Call this upon a parent View to indicate that it should not intercept touch events with onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent).
More information here.
Hope that helps.

A:

Sometime only this helps:
View child = parent.findViewById(R.id.btnMoreText);
    child.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            View parent = (View) v.getParent();
            parent.performClick();
        }
    });

Another variant, works not always:
child.setOnClickListener(null);

