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How to set Button style resource programmatically?

I want to set button style programmatically. Reason for that is I have CustomView containing Button. I send style id to my CustomView using custom parameter inside <declare-styleable>. Now I need to set button style for only Button not whole view in my CustomView.
CustomView:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progressBar"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:indeterminateTint="#color/colorText"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</FrameLayout>
CustomView in my code:
<myproject.CustomView
android:id="#+id/btn"
app:progressColor="#color/colorText"
app:l_buttonText="#string/text"
app:l_buttonStyle="#style/dialog_outlined"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="48dp" />
What I want to achieve is to set style for Button only (value obtained from app:l_buttonStyle) But I have to do this programmatically, because if I set style in XML it will be applied to FrameLayout as a root view. Here is function to init parts of my CustomView
private fun init(context: Context) {
//Init default values
View.inflate(context, R.layout.loading_button, this)
button = findViewById(R.id.button)
progressBar = findViewById(R.id.progressBar)
progressBar?.setGone()
//Now I need to set style for my inflated Button from XML layout
}

The views in custom view has to be created programmatically and at the time of initializing the view custom style has to be applied. Once the view is initialized, style cannot be set.
val button = if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
Button(this, null, 0, R.style.BtnStyle)
} else {
var themeWrapper = ContextThemeWrapper(this, R.style.BtnStyle)
Button(themeWrapper, null, 0)
}

Dynamically create Choice Chip in android

I am using Material Components for creating the Choice chip. I have followed https://material.io/develop/android/components/chip/ document. There is enough stuff for creating a chip in XML but not get an idea of how to create choice chip programmatically.
I have used following code to creating chip dynamically but it creates action chip by default.
val chip = Chip(activity)
chip.text = ("Chip 1")
chipGpRow.addView(chip)

Check the Mike comment.
Otherwise you can define a simple layout (layout_chip_choice.xml) with the Chip and the style:
<com.google.android.material.chip.Chip
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Chip.Choice"
.../>
Then use in your code:
val chip = inflater.inflate(R.layout.layout_chip_choice, chipGpRow, false) as Chip
chip.text = ("Chip 1")
chipGpRow.addView(chip)

following is my code, hope its useful to you :
create item xml for chips and add style that you want
like here style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Chip.Choice"
item_chip_category.xml
<com.google.android.material.chip.Chip xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:fontFamily="#font/popin"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingLeft="8dp"
android:paddingRight="8dp"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Chip.Choice"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:textColor="#color/secondaryTextColor"
app:chipBackgroundColor="#color/colorAccent" />
activity.xml
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:fontFamily="#font/popin"
android:padding="8dp"
android:text="Python Progrgrams"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:textAppearance="#style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Medium"
android:textColor="#color/secondaryTextColor"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<com.google.android.material.chip.ChipGroup
android:id="#+id/chipsPrograms"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/text_margin"
android:paddingStart="#dimen/text_margin"
android:paddingEnd="#dimen/text_margin"
app:chipSpacing="8dp"
app:singleSelection="false">
</com.google.android.material.chip.ChipGroup>
</LinearLayout>
Activity.java
public void setCategoryChips(ArrayList<String> categorys) {
for (String category :
categorys) {
Chip mChip = (Chip) this.getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.item_chip_category, null, false);
mChip.setText(category);
int paddingDp = (int) TypedValue.applyDimension(
TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 10,
getResources().getDisplayMetrics()
);
mChip.setPadding(paddingDp, 0, paddingDp, 0);
mChip.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton compoundButton, boolean b) {
}
});
chipsPrograms.addView(mChip);
}
}

You could either 1) create an xml layout for a chip that has the choice style and inflate it in code, similar to the ChipGroupDemoFragment example in the catalog: github.com/material-components/material-components-android/blob/… 2) create a custom theme that sets the default chipStyle to be #style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Chip.Choice I recommend #1 because it allows you the flexibility of dynamically creating chips of multiple styles.

XML
<com.google.android.material.chip.ChipGroup
android:id="#+id/chipGroupEmail"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
Activity.java
//init
ChipGroup chipGroupEmail = findViewById(R.id.chipGroupEmail);
//create a function
private void funAddChip(String name) {
Chip chip = new Chip(requireContext());
chip.setText(name);
chip.setCloseIconVisible(true);
chip.setMinWidth(100);
chip.setOnCloseIconClickListener(view -> {
try {
chipGroupEmail.removeView(view);
} catch (Exception e) {
Utils.Log_d("funAddChip Exception:-" + e);
}
});
chipGroupEmail.addView(chip);
}

I don't like the comment on setting the checkable attribute manually instead of the stylistic way. You lose other attributes, like ripple color and state list animator. Inflating a layout with your chip defined and including the style attribute with choice is the only way to do it as of now.
I have been trying to apply a style to a Chip created programmatically with context theme wrapper. This seems like the way to go, but Chip as an extension of AppCompatCheckBox does not define the four-argument constructor where the default style (action) could be overwritten with choice in my case. So the chip is always of type action ><.

How can i make a spinner prompt multiline?

I have a spinner that allows me to not show the first item in the list, but i can set my custom prompt. However whenever the prompt text spans more than one line it is cut off at the view bounds. How can i make the spinner prompt expand to accommodate more text?
I have tried modifying the view passed into the adapter to have multiple lines and also to ellipsize at the end, but nothing works.
Images for clarity:
With one line of text,
With several lines,
This is my code:
languagesSpinner.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<>(EditProfileNationalityActivity.this, R.layout.no_default_spinner_item, new String[] {""}));
if(data.length>0) {
String countries = spokenLanguages.toString().substring(0, spokenLanguages.toString().length() - 2);
languagesSpinner.setPrompt(countries);
} else {
Log.e("setting prompt to default");
languagesSpinner.setPrompt("Please select languages");
}
and this is the xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:textColor="#android:color/black"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:lines="2"
android:paddingTop="5dp"
android:paddingBottom="5dp"
android:paddingLeft="1dp"
android:paddingRight="1dp"
android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator" />
Per request, xml definition of spinner is as follows:
<com.package.views.NoDefaultSpinner
android:id="#+id/registration_stage_4_country_languages"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:clickable="false" />
NoDefaultSpinner.java can be found here: https://github.com/geftimov/android-components/blob/master/components/src/main/java/com/eftimoff/components/views/spinners/nodefault/NoDefaultSpinner.java
I have modified it to have a custom getView() method in the SpinnerProxy like this:
if (position < 0) {
if (layoutResource == -1) {
layoutResource = R.layout.no_default_spinner_item;
}
final TextView v =
(TextView) ((LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(
Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE)).inflate(
layoutResource, parent, false);
v.setText(getPrompt());
v.setPadding(0, 5, 0, 5);
return v;
}
return obj.getView(position, convertView, parent);
}

I edited your source code:
adapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(EditProfileNationalityActivity.this, R.layout.no_default_spinner_item, new String[] {""});
adapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.no_default_spinner_item);
languagesSpinner.setAdapter(adapter);

How to extract current Android layout segments into their own custom control?

OK, I have a complete layout built; however, I am not really pleased with the long xml file that has resulted. I have a shorted version of the xml outline and designer view below. And I was wondering how I can abstract out each group of similar components into their own custom control.
For example, in the picture below, I have highlighted one such control that I would like to abstract out. Instead of it being a LinearLayout with 2 TextView's inside with their own properties and attributes set. I would like to reference it via <package-name.individual_song_item
android:layout...> ... </>. All I would have to do is set the first TextView's text along with the second one via attributes in the top-level component.
How can this be done? I have the layout done and complete, but I don't like that nothing is abstracted away.
So the expected results that I am looking for are (if you look at the right-side of the image. there would only be one LinearLayout below the image, and the rest would be <package-name.individual_song_item>)
I have tried to just create a new layout xml with just the subsets of components, but I was not able to make it work when combining it back.
OLD WAY
<LinearLayout >
<ImageView />
<LinearLayout >
<LinearLayout >
<TextView />
<TextView />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout >
<TextView />
<TextView />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout >
<TextView />
<TextView />
</LinearLayout>
....
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
POSSIBLE PROPOSED WAY
<LinearLayout >
<ImageView />
<LinearLayout >
<com.example.individual_song_item />
<com.example.individual_song_item />
<com.example.individual_song_item />
....
<com.example.individual_song_item <!-- example (possible!?!?) -->
....
app:label="Group"
app:value="Group Name" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Create a custom layout eg.
public class IndividualSongItem extends LinearLayout {
private String mSong;
private String mSongName;
public IndividualSongItem(Context context) {
super(context);
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
public IndividualSongItem(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.IndividualSongItem);
try {
// Read in your custom layout's attributes,
// for example song and songName text attributes
CharSequence s = a.getString(R.styleable.IndividualSongItem_song);
if (s != null) {
setSong(s.toString());
}
s = a.getString(R.styleable.IndividualSongItem_songName);
if (s != null) {
setSongName(s.toString());
}
} finally {
a.recycle();
}
}
....etc
You will also need to create an attributes XML for your new layout class.
For a full example of how to do what you're after look at the LabelView example in the ApiDemos.
It's also very well explained here.

Create a custom View by inflating a layout?

I am trying to create a custom View that would replace a certain layout that I use at multiple places, but I am struggling to do so.
Basically, I want to replace this:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/dolphinLine"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:background="#drawable/background_box_light_blue"
android:padding="10dip"
android:layout_margin="10dip">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/dolphinTitle"
android:layout_width="200dip"
android:layout_height="100dip"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
android:text="#string/my_title"
android:textSize="30dip"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textColor="#2E4C71"
android:gravity="center"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/dolphinMinusButton"
android:layout_width="100dip"
android:layout_height="100dip"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/dolphinTitle"
android:layout_marginLeft="30dip"
android:text="#string/minus_button"
android:textSize="70dip"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="1dip"
android:background="#drawable/button_blue_square_selector"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:onClick="onClick"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/dolphinValue"
android:layout_width="100dip"
android:layout_height="100dip"
android:layout_marginLeft="15dip"
android:background="#android:drawable/editbox_background"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/dolphinMinusButton"
android:text="0"
android:textColor="#2E4C71"
android:textSize="50dip"
android:gravity="center"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:inputType="none"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/dolphinPlusButton"
android:layout_width="100dip"
android:layout_height="100dip"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/dolphinValue"
android:layout_marginLeft="15dip"
android:text="#string/plus_button"
android:textSize="70dip"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="1dip"
android:background="#drawable/button_blue_square_selector"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:onClick="onClick"/>
</RelativeLayout>
By this:
<view class="com.example.MyQuantityBox"
android:id="#+id/dolphinBox"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:myCustomAttribute="#string/my_title"/>
So, I do not want a custom layout, I want a custom View (it should not be possible for this view to have child).
The only thing that could change from one instance of a MyQuantityBox to another is the title. I would very much like to be able to specify this in the XML (as I do on the last XML line)
How can I do this? Should I put the RelativeLayout in a XML file in /res/layout and inflate it in my MyBoxQuantity class? If yes how do I do so?
Thanks!

A bit old, but I thought sharing how I'd do it, based on chubbsondubs' answer:
I use FrameLayout (see Documentation), since it is used to contain a single view, and inflate into it the view from the xml.
Code following:
public class MyView extends FrameLayout {
public MyView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
initView();
}
public MyView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
initView();
}
public MyView(Context context) {
super(context);
initView();
}
private void initView() {
inflate(getContext(), R.layout.my_view_layout, this);
}
}

Here is a simple demo to create customview (compoundview) by inflating from xml
attrs.xml
<resources>
<declare-styleable name="CustomView">
<attr format="string" name="text"/>
<attr format="reference" name="image"/>
</declare-styleable>
</resources>
CustomView.kt
class CustomView #JvmOverloads constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet? = null, defStyleAttr: Int = 0) :
ConstraintLayout(context, attrs, defStyleAttr) {
init {
init(attrs)
}
private fun init(attrs: AttributeSet?) {
View.inflate(context, R.layout.custom_layout, this)
val image_thumb = findViewById<ImageView>(R.id.image_thumb)
val text_title = findViewById<TextView>(R.id.text_title)
val ta = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.CustomView)
try {
val text = ta.getString(R.styleable.CustomView_text)
val drawableId = ta.getResourceId(R.styleable.CustomView_image, 0)
if (drawableId != 0) {
val drawable = AppCompatResources.getDrawable(context, drawableId)
image_thumb.setImageDrawable(drawable)
}
text_title.text = text
} finally {
ta.recycle()
}
}
}
custom_layout.xml
We should use merge here instead of ConstraintLayout because
If we use ConstraintLayout here, layout hierarchy will be ConstraintLayout->ConstraintLayout -> ImageView + TextView => we have 1 redundant ConstraintLayout => not very good for performance
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<merge xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:parentTag="android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/image_thumb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
tools:ignore="ContentDescription"
tools:src="#mipmap/ic_launcher" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text_title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="#id/image_thumb"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="#id/image_thumb"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/image_thumb"
tools:text="Text" />
</merge>
Using
activity_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<your_package.CustomView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#f00"
app:image="#drawable/ic_android"
app:text="Android" />
<your_package.CustomView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#0f0"
app:image="#drawable/ic_adb"
app:text="ADB" />
</LinearLayout>
Result
See full code on:
Github

Yes you can do this. RelativeLayout, LinearLayout, etc are Views so a custom layout is a custom view. Just something to consider because if you wanted to create a custom layout you could.
What you want to do is create a Compound Control. You'll create a subclass of RelativeLayout, add all our your components in code (TextView, etc), and in your constructor you can read the attributes passed in from the XML. You can then pass that attribute to your title TextView.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html

Use the LayoutInflater as I shown below.
public View myView() {
View v; // Creating an instance for View Object
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.myview, null);
TextView text1 = v.findViewById(R.id.dolphinTitle);
Button btn1 = v.findViewById(R.id.dolphinMinusButton);
TextView text2 = v.findViewById(R.id.dolphinValue);
Button btn2 = v.findViewById(R.id.dolphinPlusButton);
return v;
}

In practice, I have found that you need to be a bit careful, especially if you are using a bit of xml repeatedly. Suppose, for example, that you have a table that you wish to create a table row for each entry in a list. You've set up some xml:
In my_table_row.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TableRow xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" android:id="#+id/myTableRow">
<ImageButton android:src="#android:drawable/ic_menu_delete" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="#+id/rowButton"/>
<TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" android:text="TextView" android:id="#+id/rowText"></TextView>
</TableRow>
Then you want to create it once per row with some code. It assume that you have defined a parent TableLayout myTable to attach the Rows to.
for (int i=0; i<numRows; i++) {
/*
* 1. Make the row and attach it to myTable. For some reason this doesn't seem
* to return the TableRow as you might expect from the xml, so you need to
* receive the View it returns and then find the TableRow and other items, as
* per step 2.
*/
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getBaseContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_table_row, myTable, true);
// 2. Get all the things that we need to refer to to alter in any way.
TableRow tr = (TableRow) v.findViewById(R.id.profileTableRow);
ImageButton rowButton = (ImageButton) v.findViewById(R.id.rowButton);
TextView rowText = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.rowText);
// 3. Configure them out as you need to
rowText.setText("Text for this row");
rowButton.setId(i); // So that when it is clicked we know which one has been clicked!
rowButton.setOnClickListener(this); // See note below ...
/*
* To ensure that when finding views by id on the next time round this
* loop (or later) gie lots of spurious, unique, ids.
*/
rowText.setId(1000+i);
tr.setId(3000+i);
}
For a clear simple example on handling rowButton.setOnClickListener(this), see Onclicklistener for a programmatically created button.

There are multiple answers which point the same way in different approaches, I believe the below is the simplest approach without using any third-party libraries, even you can use it using Java.
In Kotlin;
Create values/attr.xml
<resources>
<declare-styleable name="DetailsView">
<attr format="string" name="text"/>
<attr format="string" name="value"/>
</declare-styleable>
</resources>
Create layout/details_view.xml file for your view
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<merge xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text_label"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.5"
tools:text="Label" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text_value"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.5"
tools:text="Value" />
</LinearLayout>
</merge>
Create the custom view widget DetailsView.kt
import android.content.Context
import android.content.res.TypedArray
import android.util.AttributeSet
import android.view.View
import android.widget.LinearLayout
import android.widget.TextView
import com.payable.taponphone.R
class DetailsView #JvmOverloads constructor(
context: Context,
attrs: AttributeSet? = null,
defStyleAttr: Int = 0
) : LinearLayout(context, attrs, defStyleAttr) {
private val attributes: TypedArray = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.DetailsView)
private val view: View = View.inflate(context, R.layout.details_view, this)
init {
view.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.text_label).text = attributes.getString(R.styleable.DetailsView_text)
view.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.text_value).text = attributes.getString(R.styleable.DetailsView_value)
}
}
That's it now you can call the widget anywhere in your app as below
<com.yourapp.widget.DetailsView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:text="Welcome"
app:value="Feb" />

A simple Custom View using Kotlin
Replace FrameLayout with whatever view you Like to extend
/**
* Simple Custom view
*/
class CustomView#JvmOverloads
constructor(context: Context,
attrs: AttributeSet? = null,
defStyleAttr: Int = 0)
: FrameLayout(context, attrs, defStyleAttr) {
init {
// Init View
val rootView = (getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE) as LayoutInflater)
.inflate(R.layout.custom_layout, this, true)
val titleView= rootView.findViewById(id.txtTitle)
// Load Values from XML
val attrsArray = getContext().obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.CutsomView, defStyleAttr, 0)
val titleString = attrsArray.getString(R.styleable.cutomAttrsText)
attrsArray.recycle()
}
}