Android development

Standard
Android
Controls
(CheckBox and RadioButton)


Using CheckBox
The check box button is often used in lists of
items where the user can select multiple items.
The Android check box contains a text attribute
that appears to the side of the check box.
Because the Checkbox class is derived from the
TextView and Button classes, much of the
attributes and methods behave in a similar
fashion.
Using CheckBox
Heres an XML layout resource definition for a
simple CheckBox control with some default
text displayed:
<CheckBox
android:id="@+id/checkbox"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Check me" />

Event Handling In CheckBox
It can be done in 2 ways:
A.
1. Implement the OnCheckedChangeListener
interface
2. Register the CheckBox object as source and
Activity class as Listener by calling the
setOnCheckedChangeListener( ) method.
3. Override the method onCheckedChanged( )
Event Handling In CheckBox
B.
1. Implement the OnClickListener interface
2. Register the CheckBox object as source and
Activity class as Listener by calling the
setOnClickListener( ) method.
3. Override the method onClick( )
Determining State Of
CheckBox
To determine whether CheckBox is on or off
we can use the method isChecked( ) of
CheckBox object:
Its prototype is:
public boolean isChecked()
It returns true if the CheckBox is on otherwise
it returns false

Setting State Of CheckBox
To programmatically set the state of CheckBox
we can use its method setChecked( )
Its prototype is
public void setChecked(boolean)
If we pass true then CheckBox becomes
selected (ON) and if false is passed it
becomes deselected (OFF)


EXERCISE

Using RadioButton
RadioButton controls are two-state widgets that
can be in either a checked or unchecked state.
The difference between check boxes and radio
buttons is that you can select more than one
check box in a set, whereas radio buttons are
mutually exclusiveonly one radio button can be
selected in a group.
Selecting a radio button automatically deselects
other radio buttons in the group.
Creating RadioButton
To make RadioButtons mutually exclusive,
they are grouped together into the
RadioGroup element so that no more than
one can be selected at a time.
To create a group of radio buttons, we first
create a RadioGroup and then populate the
group with few RadioButton controls
Creating RadioButton
<RadioGroup
android:id="@+id/group_hotel"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView1">
<RadioButton android:id="@+id/radio_fivestar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Five Star " />
<RadioButton android:id="@+id/radio_threestar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Three Star" />
</RadioGroup>
Event Handling In
RadioButton
It can be done in 2 ways:
A.
1. Implement the OnCheckedChangedListener
interface
2. Register the RadioButton object as source
and Activity class as Listener by calling the
setOnCheckedChangeListener( ) method.
3. Override the method onCheckedChanged( )
Event Handling In
RadioButton
B.
1. Implement the OnClickListener interface
2. Register the RadioButton object as source
and Activity class as Listener by calling the
setOnClickListener( ) method.
3. Override the method onClick( )
RadioButton Methods
public boolean isChecked()

public void setChecked(boolean)

public EdiTable getText()
RadioButton Methods
public void setText(CharSequence)

public void
setOnClickListener(OnClickListener)

public void
setOnCheckedChangeListener(OnCheckedC
hangeListener)



EXERCISE