User option of an element - android

How can i set my own option on view?
I need something like this:
TableRow tblr_data = new TableRow(this);
tblr_data.setOption("my_option", "my_option_value"); //there is no such method
Another words i need to add custom option to table row (custom id for example) and then use it in onclick handler.

If I understand your question correctly, you could use the setTag(int key, Object tag) method.
//member variable
private int MY_OPTION = 1;
//when creating your tablerow
tblr_data.setTag(MY_OPTION, "my_option_value");
then in your onClickListener, you can just fetch that value again by calling
String value = (String)tblr_data.getTag(MY_OPTION);
See this accepted answer for more on the get/setTag() method.
What is the main purpose of setTag() getTag() methods of View?

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Why in RecyclerView findViewByPosition() returns null on EditText

I have an Activity, which has a RecyclerView and save Button. Each item (football match) of the RecyclerView contains some text (name of teams) and EditText, where user enters data (actually bet the match). My goal is to save those scores to the list in the Activity, when user clicked on save Button.
I implemented this method in Activity, which actually get particular item from LinearLayoutManager and then get data from EditText, but the findViewByPosition() method (or getChildAt() there are different way to do this) sometimes returns null.
I saw another answers on similar question, but they didn't help me. Maybe my strategy is wrong, because I made whole my logic in Activity (better to do this in Adapter?) and I get though all of my items in RecyclerView even if only in one user entered the score.
private List<Bet> getUserBets() {
View betView;
Bet betItem;
EditText userBet1;
EditText userBet2;
int numberOfMatches = rvBetsAdapter.getItemCount();
List<Bet> bets = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfMatches; i++)
{
betItem = rvBetsAdapter.getItem(i);
betView = linearLayoutManager.findViewByPosition(i);
userScore1 = (EditText) betView.findViewById(R.id.result1); // <- NPE appears
userScore2 = (EditText) betView.findViewById(R.id.result2);
//here i checked whether the editText is empty and other stuff
bets.add(betItem);
}
return bets;
}
How do I fix it? I suppose I should do something in onBindViewHolder method in my adapter, but what exactly?
I would really appreciate any help.
You should add to your Bet model variable which holds EditText value for example editTextValue.
And access it using list in adapter list like this end use EditText value from there. rvBetsAdapter.getItem(i).editTextValue
editTextValue can be set using TextWatcher.afterTextChanged() callback
You can only find or get views that are visible on the screen.
before using findViewByPosition(2)
go to position 2 by recyclerView.scrollToPosition(2);
if you want to change value of this views, The best way is get your item in list
yourModel item = (yourModel) itemList.Get(2)
item.Name = "Edited";
yourAdapter.notifyItemChanged(2);

Add getChildAt() to custom tablerow class

I've made a TableRow class and added my own methods to it. In the TableRow is a EditText where i want to retreive values from. I thought about using the getChildAt() for finding the right EditText in the right TableRow. But because i made my own TableRow class i can't use the getChildAt() wich is in the original TableRow class or parents of it.
So how can i get the EditText values from the tablerows? Create my own getChildAt method?(if so, how?) or is there a different way?
Example-
EditText editEmail, editPass;
String name = "", pass = "";
editEmail=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editEmail);
editPass=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editPass);
name = editEmail.getText().toString();
pass = editPass.getText().toString();
you can try this. the values now in string variable and you can use these variables wherever you want.
Whenever you create dynamic view you can assign an id to that view as
final int ID=1001;
EditText et=new EditText(this);
et.setId(ID);
and get the view using
findviewbyid(ID) ;
If you are using xml
android:id="#+id/ed1"
In Activity
EditText et=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.ed1);

Referring to programmatically created UI elements in Android

I was wondering how to refer to an View if I create it programmatically.
I have to create new passenger Views with "Add Passenger" and respectively "Remove Passenger" buttons to my app. The promts are kept LinearLayouts called "#+id/passenger" which have two EditTexts called "#+id/passenger_name" and "#+id/passenger_weight". Those are then kept in a yet another parent LinearLayout called passenger_layout that can hold all the passenger LinearLayouts in a bunch
Adding new passengers is easy, but I have no idea how to refer to the newly created elements. I guess they get a identifier of some sort automatically? I'd prefer them to be "passenger_name%" and "passenger_weight%", where % is an index _passengerCount.
addPassenger.Click += delegate {
//Add to index
++passengerCount;
//Prep new passenger layout
var newLayout = new LinearLayout(Activity);
//Set LayoutParameters from the existing passenger LayoutParameters
newLayout.LayoutParameters = newPassenger.LayoutParameters;
//Prep the new EditTexts
var name = new EditText(Activity);
var weight = new EditText(Activity);
//Set the EditTexts' LayoutParameters from existing LayoutParameters
name.LayoutParameters = new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(passengerName.LayoutParameters);
weight.LayoutParameters = new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(passengerWeight.LayoutParameters);
//These cleary don't work :<
// name.Id = Resources.GetIdentifier( "passenger_name" + passengerCount, "id", Activity.PackageName);
// weight.Id = "passenger_weight" + passengerCount;
//Add EditTexts to the new passenger layout and then and then add the new passenger to the parent LinearLayout
newLayout.AddView(name);
newLayout.AddView(weight);
passengerLayout.AddView(newLayout);
Log.Debug(GetType().FullName, "Add clicked");
};
That is my click delegate to create a new passenger, but again even if I create them like this I don't know how I can find them later if I have to for example remove them or get the name or weight data.
How do I refer to programmatically created UI elements?
When you create a view, try giving it some ID, and holding that ID as a static reference somewhere.
Then, you could simply call the containing view's findViewById(MY_VIEWS_ID) and get the view.
Of course, alternatively, you could always hold a reference to the view you created somewhere in your code when you create it. If you're afraid of memory leaks, you could use WeakReference.
Hope this helps.
You could maintain a static variable within the Activity that will contain the UI element after it gets initialized.
Something like:
// Definition
private static TextView textViewToSave = null;
textViewToSave = // create the TextView programatically.
// Do stuff with the saved TextView
textViewToSave.setText("O Hai world!");

android: adapter for textview

I have multiple TextViews . When I click on the TextView I would like to grab the associated object. I know there are ListAdapters for list views and other collection type views. Is there a way to dynamically associate a custom object with a TextView?
Yes you can attach. Here are apis from the View since TextView is extended from View you can use them.
setTag(Object tag)
setTag(int key, Object tag)
How to use:
class YourCustomData {
public int data;
}
// in your onCreate
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.your_text_view);
tv.setTag(new YourCustomData());
-
// say somewhere you have a handler/listener for text view
// Note: you have to write the code to get the textview
YourCustomData ycd = (YourCustomData)tv.getTag();
Android Developers Reference:
setTag(java.lang.Object)
getTag()
You can also use a HashMap<View, Object>
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/HashMap.html

Re-using a radiobutton in Android

Th question: Can I re-use RadioButton objects over and over again in an child activity?
I have a parent activity and a child activity. In the child activity, I have a large number of radio button displayed in a UI. In order to provide databinding from the parent down to the child, I have created a class (below) which contains a collection of RadioButtons. To populate the child activity, I pass a reference to this class down to the child which then groups the radioButtons into RadioGroups and displays them. I do this because the checked status of each button is now automatically available in the parent class, without the need to transfer any data through bundles.
public class GeneralAttribute{
Activity mThis;
public class Gender { // Mutually exclusive members
String categoryDesc = "Gender of user";
RadioButton isUnspecified = initRadioButton("Unspecified", true);
RadioButton isMale = initRadioButton("Male" , false);
RadioButton isFemale = initRadioButton("Female" , false);
} ;
<....more subclasses....>
RadioButton initRadioButton(String str, Boolean b) { // Factory
float cLayoutWeight = 0.5f;
RadioButton rb = new RadioButton(mThis);
rb.setText (str);
rb.setChecked(b);
rb.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, cLayoutWeight));
return rb;
}
GeneralAttribute(Activity localThis){ // Constructor
mThis = localThis;
gender = new Gender();
handedness = new Handedness();
location = new Location();
}
}
In the parent activity i have:
public class Parent(...)
public GeneralAttribute mGeneralAttribute; // Member class of RadioButtons
public static SPIGestureLoggerActivity TopLevelActivity;// Reference to the parent activity
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
TopLevelActivity = this; // Assign this to the reference
mGeneralAttribute = new GeneralAttribute(this); // Initialize the class of RBs
startActivity(child); // Start the child
In the child activity i have this:
radiogroup = new RadioGroup(this);
radiogroup.setOrientation(RadioGroup.VERTICAL);
radiogroup.addView(Parent.TopLevelActivity.mGeneralAttribute.gender.isUnspecified);
radiogroup.addView(Parent.TopLevelActivity.mGeneralAttribute.gender.isMale);
radiogroup.addView(Parent.TopLevelActivity.mGeneralAttribute.gender.isFemale);
Parent.TopLevelActivity.mGeneralAttribute.gender.isUnspecified.setChecked(true);
mLinearLayout.addView(radiogroup);
This works fine....the first time the child activity is displayed. The second time it is displayed I get an exception.
In summary, here is the chain of events:
create the class of RadioButtons,
pass them to the child,
add them to a new RadioGroup
collect user choices
finish the child acitivty (which should destroy the RadioGroups)
use the data in the parent,
start the child activity again,
attempt to add the RadioButtons to new RadioGroups...
...Exception.
I can avoid this problem, if I null the class and reconstruct it. However, I would like to re-show the choices made from the first viewing with the second viewing.
Ideas:
Are the radioButtons saving pointers to the non-existant RadioGroups from the first viewing?
Is there a way to re-assign the view parent on each radio button in the class?
P.S. You may ask why I'm not using XML. For one, I will have 100+ of these radio buttons and I think it will be too painful to manage through XML. For another, I just like working programmatically on these things.
make sure you remove all the radiobuttons from the all radiogroups. Basically your right the radiobuttons are saving pointers to the non-existant raidogroups and no there isn't isn't a way to reassigned without calling removeAllViews on all the radiogroups. The best place to do that will be the onDestroy if your sure thats being called.

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