Android view isDirty inside onClick - android

I want to check if the text in some EditText is changed, after user clicks some Button. But View#isDirty seems not to return the correct state of the EditText if called inside onClick. For instance, I wrote something like this:
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
EditText editText;
Button button;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.f);
editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.e);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
System.out.println((editText.isDirty() ? "is dirty" : "is clean"));
}
});
}
}
before i make any change to the editText, it outputs is clean, as expected. But the same is clean is printed even after I write something in editText.
When will isDirty be called? And is it the correct way to do this at all?
Update:
I also want to check if some Switch and Spinner values are changed. Is isDirty() the correct way to do this?

By the time you click your button edittext is no longer dirty - text is already updated and view redrawn. Maybe if you change your onclick handler you will understand better what is going on.
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.e);
System.out.println((editText.isDirty() ? "is dirty" : "is clean"));
}
});
isDirty will return true only as long as view has not been redrawn. This happens quite quickly and basically you do not have (and dont need) any control over this.
I think you need to use some other methods to achieve what you want.

I would suggest to use:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/9459848/5684335
The comment from Okas is a good explanation why.

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Highlight a new feature in android app with an imageview and make it look normal after 1 click?

I need to add a new feature in my app and I have to put an image on the side of the layout. Such that the feature gets highlighted.
But, even if I write the code to make the view's visibility gone after one click. It still appears next time, when the app gets opened.
So, can anyone tell me how to do this correctly ??
Thanks in advance.
This code should solve your problem
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private ImageView imgTarget;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = getSharedPreferences("app_prefs",MODE_PRIVATE);
boolean imageVisible = sharedPreferences.getBoolean("img_visible",true);
Button button = findViewById(R.id.button);
imgTarget = findViewById(R.id.imgTarget);
if (!imageVisible){
imgTarget.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
if(imageVisible){
imgTarget.setVisibility(View.GONE);
sharedPreferences.edit().putBoolean("img_visible",false).apply();
}
}
});
}
}
I hope it helps you.
Is your app connected to a database like sql, firebase or something else, if so you can create a counter variable in your database and control your view accordingly .
Based on your description, i'm guessing you've the gone after 1 click part done already.
Use SharedPreferences to see if the app has already been opened.
If yes, then set the Visibility to View.GONE in onCreate after you find the id. Otherwise, show it. Feel free to ask if there's anything else.

Button to hide a TextView

I've been searching for a solution for this for a while but cannot seem to get one working. There are one or two on here about this subject but I can't seem to get them going. I'm also a novice in Android and while I've been on and off playing with it for a few years, I still understand next to nothing about what I'm writing.
Basically I've got a TextView and a button. Ideally I'd like to put some text in the TextView, press a button it's gone, press the button again and it's back.
I've narrowed it down to needing to understand what findViewById(R.id.button2) does but honestly I'm a bit lost.
I've added my button code but apologies that this is such a noob question
public void onClick(Button v){
TextView t1 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.editText);
v.setVisibility(View.GONE);
Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
TextView t1 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.TextView);
v.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
});
}
Your code has a couple of issues. I'm not going to give you the code because that won't really help you learn. Instead I'll explain things and let you try to figure it out or come back with more explicit questions.
You know that xml file you set using setContentView? Some of the tags in it had a property android:id="xxxx". That xxxx is the id of that view, its used so you can find that view in your code. The findViewById function walks through all the views on screen and finds a view with that id and returns it. That gives you a reference to the view so you can change it. For example, you can set its visibility, set its background color, or set an OnClickListener.
So to have a button toggle the visibility of another view, you need to be able to do the following things:
1)Find the view who's visibility you want to change
2)Figure out what its visibility currently is
3)Figure out what you want it to be (the opposite of what it currently is
4)Set that visibility
You need to write a function that does all that. Then you need to do this
1)Find the button you want to use to change the visibility
2)Tell it to call your function when its pressed.
Figure out how to do each of those steps individually, and you should be able to put it together. Good luck.
findViewById(R.id.button2) finds the view with the id button2.
You can check inside onClick whether t1 is visible or not (t1.setVisibility(View.GONE); not v.setVisibility(View.GONE);), and toggle between View.GONE and View.VISIBLE.
Remember that your findViewById() should have a real id. They are normally set on the activity_name.xml.
You are using a onClick inside a onClick. Personally I recommend setting the listener manually with setOnClickListener.
There's a lot of work for you, start with these tutorials. Keep trying and try to understand what you are doing.
Look like you need a toogle button feature, here is a piece of code.
Important: you must pay heed to #GabeSechan and #SkyDriver2500 answers.
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.your_layout);
//your other code
Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);
final TextView t1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.editText);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
t1.setVisibility(t1.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE ? View.GONE : View.VISIBLE);
}
});
}
I'm not sure if the code will help you now. But just in case, here it is
final boolean[] isTvVisible = {false};
final TextView t1 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.editText);
t1.setVisibility(View.GONE);
Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
if (isTvVisible[0]) {
t1.setVisibility(View.GONE);
isTvVisible[0] = false;
} else {
t1.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
isTvVisible[0] = true;
}
}
});

When button gets clicked, make it dissapear, randomely change bg color and load text from database?

I am busy creating an app. I succeeded in creating the button with a custom font and all. Now what I'd want is that when I click the button, it must disapear, the background color of the view must randomely change and text must be loaded from an database.
How does one go about this?
Matthew
Well, the disappearing can be make like this:
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
protected void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
super.onCreate(icicle);
setContentView(R.layout.content_layout_id);
final Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_id);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
// Perform action on click - Disappear in your case...
v.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); //can be View.GONE as well...
}
});
}
}
Then for the background I guess you can create an array with all the colors you want (or something that generates a random HEX code) and then do setBackground(X) where X is the HEX code that you just generated... You need to specify more about the database part though.

How to display a something from an EditText?

I thought making thing part of the app would be easy, however I was wrong. I wish to have a textView display whatever the user wrote in the editText. This is what I tried.
add.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
myTextView.setText(myEditText.getText().toString());
// of course I would use variables in place of the
// myTextView and myEditText
}
});
This is another way I tried to get this done.
add.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
//num1 is my String variable
num1 = myEditText.getText().toString();
myTextView.setText(num1);
}
});
Both times the textView comes up with nothing in it.
Thank you for any help!
onClickListener merely responds to user clicks. You need to implement a TextWatcher on your EditText. The most straightforward way of doing this is to implement TextWatcher in your class, then make a call to myEditText.addTextChangedListener(this).
I recommend adding something like the following to your onTextChanged method:
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
myTextView.setText(myTextView.getText()+s);//or something like this...
}
I usually use GetDlgItemText.
char Buffer[120];
GetDlgItemText(hwndDlg, (control), buffer, sizeof(buffer));
This will read it and store it in buffer.
In the EditText the getText call should you return the String, I don't believe you need to call the ToString method on it. The way you are using it in the onClickListener implies you have a button that should be calling a function to set the text into the textview. If you want it dynamically you should be able to use onTextChanged to fill in the data.
First of all check whether the control is coming to your setOnClickListener(). Put in a Log to find that out.
Next make sure that "add" is the button or item that u r using to initiate the copy process.
This statement of yours is correct.
myTextView.setText(myEditText.getText().toString());
Though you do not require the toString(). Doesnt really make a difference. I suggest you check that your textview and edittext is fine.
have you check the visibility of textview ?before clicking add button it is invisible rite?then u have to set the visibility on add button click.
From your code i understood that there is a button here too so try this should work:
public class Activity1 extends Activity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button btn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.mybutton);
btn.setOnClickListener(btncall);
}
private OnClickListener btncall = new OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
TextView mytextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.MytextView);
EditText myeditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.MyeditText);
mytextView.setText(myeditText.getText().toString());
}
};
}

ParseInt Exception

I am creating a small calc app with EditText views and Im running into an runtime exception when the user leaves an EditText view empty causing the ParseInt to try and Parse nothing. Ive read that I need to 'Try' and 'Catch' this error before it occurs, but Im unsure of where and how to do this!
Any advice is much appreciated!
Here is my code:
public class HandlerExamples extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.testButton);
button.setOnClickListener(this);
public void onClick(View v) {
String a,b,t;
double vis;
EditText txtbox1 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.A);
EditText txtbox2 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.B);
EditText txtbox3 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.t);
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.Answer);
a = txtbox1.getText().toString();
b = txtbox2.getText().toString();
t = txtbox3.getText().toString();
vis = ((Integer.parseInt(a)*1) + (Integer.parseInt(b)*2)) / (Double.parseDouble(t));
tv.setText(double.toString(vis));
}
}
Thanks so much!
public void onClick(View v) {
int id = v.getId();
switch(id){
case R.id.xx:
//do things xx click
break;
case R.id.yy:
//do things yy click
break;
}
}
you can get the view id to know whick widget was clicked.
Changwei Yao defined one way you can do this, but here's the way most Android programmers would do this (programmatically), since it's a little easier to read and figure out what your widgets are doing:
But first, remove the implements OnClickListener from your Activity, as it's not needed.
button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// what you want your button to do when clicked
}
}
editText.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// what you want your EditText to do when clicked
// (such as editText.setText(""))
}
}
Another way to do the same thing is to define android:onClick="insert_method_name_here" for the widgets that you want perform an action when clicked. In your case, in your main.xml (since that's what you're using in your Activity), you could write something like...
<Button android:id="#+id/testButton"
(other attributes you wish to apply to the button)
android:onClick="buttonAction" />
<EditText
(other attributes)
android:onClick="textAction" />
And then, in your Activity, you define the methods buttonAction(View v) and textAction(View v). Note that these methods must be public void, and must take the sole argument View v.
(One advantage of the XML method is that you don't necessarily have to define an android:id attribute for these widgets, unless you need to be able to manipulate them or extract information from them in your code (which means you will need to define an android:id for your EditText since you'll likely want the user's input))
If you only need to exclude the empty text field then hotveryspicy's solution is probably the quickest. For a secure solution: catching the NumberFormatException will filter anything that can not be converted to an integer.
int vis;
try {
vis = Integer.parseInt(a);
}
catch(NumberFormatException nfe) {
Log.e(TAG,"trying to convert:"+a+" to integer failed");
vis = 0;
}

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