Android CheckBoxe Example

A checkbox is a specific type of two-states button that can be either checked or unchecked.
We will learn how to use checkbox in this tutorial.


Note: You should  know how to use Buttons and TextViews , if  you do not know then read this post  Using Buttons and TextViews in Android.

Create a new project.
Name your activity "CheckBoxActivity"

Editing main.xml file :

open main.xml file and  add TextViews, CheckBoxes and Buttons, it should like like below. (you can just copy the below code and paste in main.xml file)

main.xml

  <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

   
    
    
     <TextView
         android:text="Choose Your Hobies"
         android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         />

    
     <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkReading"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Reading" />

    <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkSong"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Listening Songs"
        android:checked="true" />

    <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkPLay"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Playing" />
    
    <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkSing"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Singing" />
    
    <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chkDance"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Dancing" />
    
    
     <TextView
         android:id="@+id/result"
         android:textSize="20dp"
         android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnDisplay"
        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="        OK        " />

</LinearLayout>

Thing To Note

 android:checked="true"         you can initially checked any check box using this tag. see  in fig.

 " Listening Song" is already checked.

Editing CheckBoxActivity  file

CheckBoxActivity.java

       public class CheckBoxActivity extends Activity

       {

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

{

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

final TextView textHobbies=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);

// getting refference of check boxes

final CheckBox reading=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkReading);

final CheckBox playing=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkReading);

final CheckBox listening=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkPLay);

final CheckBox singing=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkSing);

final CheckBox dancing=(CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.chkDance);

// get reffrence of Button

Button button=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btnDisplay);

button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

public void onClick(View v) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

String hobbies="";

if(reading.isChecked())

hobbies+="Reading";

if(playing.isChecked())

hobbies+="  Playing";

if(listening.isChecked())

hobbies+="  Listening Music";

if(singing.isChecked())

hobbies+="  Singing";

if(dancing.isChecked())

hobbies+="  Dancing";

 textHobbies.setText("Your Hobbies are : "+hobbies) ;

}

});

}

    

    }

Point to Note:

checkBoxObject.isChecked();

isChecked() method returns true if the checkBox is checked , and false otherwise.

Now run your project , do some activity(check or unceck checkboxes)

You will see the following.

Hope you learned and enjoyed

Comments and questions are welcome