OnItemClick only fires when the item itself is clicked. If you had a TextView or a TextView and an ImageView instead of a Button, clicking the item then will trigger onItemClick.
If the button you want to place on the listview item occupies the whole item width and height the onItemClickListener will not be envoked since there is no content space to click/touch. You can implement the onClickListener() (or onTouchListener()) for the button. But why button, you can do the same without button but just with click on the listview item as it is.
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