Getting text from a button - android

If I use multiple ids with same #Click event method like
#ViewById Button choice1;
#ViewById Button choice2;
#Click({R.id.choice1,R.id.choice2})
void choice(){
//String text = text of the clicked button
}
How will I get the text of the button that is being clicked?

As wrote on the wiki you can add a View parameter in your method signature, like this :
#Click({R.id.choice1, R.id.choice2})
void choice(View clickedView) {
[...]
}
Also you don't have to annotate your buttons with ViewById in order to use Click (unless you really need a reference to these instances, of course)

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I have 200 textviews and i want to know which one was pressed then how to change the text

I have a problem... have been thinking about it for a while now and been looking on line and still haven't come up with a clear explanation...
I have a number of textviews and have set onClickListeners to each of them.. and when the user clicks on one of them I want them to have the ability to change the text to another set of string array options which I have created progammatically. When the user selects an option the text should change to the option they choose. (I.e. TextView was A now it is B. hope this makes sense.. anyway... )
The current solution was to set a OnClickListener to every TextView and when someone pressed it an individual dialog showed. But I found that if I do this the code would be so long it would take an eternity to code so am hoping someone has a more elegant way of coding such a long process =(
So I guess my question would be... 1) is there a way I can find out which text view was pressed and then change the text of that TextView being pressed within a single method? to save me having to code 1000 alert dialogs...
http://i.stack.imgur.com/LRJGz.png
I would advise you to use a grid view.
You can see which textview was pressed like this:
gridView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int position,
long id) {
//get id
switch (v.getId()) {
case R.id.textView1: ...
}
});
One of the ways to do what you want is to use the text view setTag() and getTag() methods.
On init of a text view use the setTag() to set some value to identify the view.
In the on click event use the getTag() on the view argument to know which view was clicked.
I would suggest holding the textviews in an array, like so:
TextView[] textViewArray = new TextView[textViewCount];
Then using a for loop assign each one a tag of integer - it's position
textViewArray.setTag(i)
And add an onClickListener to each one, again using a for loop:
textviewArray[i].setOnClickListener(etc...)
Then when one is clicked, you can use get the position of view that was clicked. This will require a custom method inside of your:
textviewArray.setOnClickListener(new customOnClickListener())
Where your customOnClickListner is like this:
private class customOnClickListener implements CompoundButton.{
public void OnClick(View view){
int position = (Integer) view.getTag()
///Do more code here - your processing
}
}
Hope that makes sense :)
For your for loops, you could use for(i = 0, i
Use set id for all text, where set the id positive integer(distinct), and then have one on view click listener(set it all) where u catch all text view clicks(downcast view with textview) and in side it put a switch case where you handle clicks on which text view is clicked.
You have to set "onClickListner" on all of of your textview.
For Saving some length of code i would suggest you create a function of your dialogbox, and give some int parameter to it, which would be directly called by the clickListener of textview,
Like ,
int i=0;
......
textView1 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.yourtextview1);
textView2 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.yourtextview2);
......
......
// and so on, for your all textviews
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
if (view.equals(textView1)) {
i = 1;
CustomDialog(i);
}
//Similarly for all your textViews..
..........
Make A function CustomDialog Like
public void CustomDialog(int i){
if(i==1){
//Do something
}
}

android working with Views

In my activity I have the following views
TextView player1;
TextView player2;
TextView player3;
TextView player4;
EditText player1name;
EditText player2name;
EditText player3name;
EditText player4name;
Each of the TextView's has the onclick listener applied to it. and so fires the OnClick function.
When we get to the onClick this is what i am currently doing:
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//the v variable is the clicked textview, in this case "player1"
//hide the textview and show the resultant edittext
v.setVisibility(View.GONE);
player1name.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
//set focus on edit text and when focus is lost hide it and set the textview text
player1name.requestFocus();
imm.showSoftInput(player1name, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
player1name.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onFocusChange(View y, boolean x) {
v.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
player1name.setVisibility(View.GONE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(player1name.getWindowToken(), 0);
String name = player1name.getText().toString();
if (name.equals("")) {
v.setText("Player Name1");
} else {
v.setText(name);
}
}
});
}
However with this solution I will need to duplicate this code and change the view names for player2 - player2name, player3 - player3name etc
i can obviously grab the clicked TextView via v, however what i cant seem to do is grab its corresponding EditText.
i had thought of doing this:
View test = v + "name";
//then i replace all references to player1name with the test variable
but it doesnt work it wants me to convert View test; into a string
any suggestions?
EDIT: made it easier to understand my question
View test = v + "name";
will give a compile error. Because "v" is not a string type. and also even if it was String, test is not. This line is pretty wrong.
There a few options to achieve what you want,
You can use hashmap
Declare a global field for hashmap
private final HashMap<Integer,EditText> map = new HashMap<Integer,EditText>();
and in onCreate method put your textview id as key, and put your edittext variables in value.
player1name = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.player1name);
map.put(R.id.textView1, player1name);
// for the rest
in onClick method
EditText e = map.get(v.getId());
Then replace them with "e"
e.requestFocus(); //example
Will you please state your problem clearly? Currently, your language is very ambiguous and I can not figure out, exactly what are you looking for. It will help us to know your problem and in turn solve it.

How to get values from dynamically created EditText fields?

I am little confused with following scenario:
I have an add button which I use it to add a number of EditText fields, when I tap on the save button I should get the values from the EditTexts.
How can I get these values from all of the EditText fields?
You could do something like this:
Store all the EditText fields you create programmatically inside a List. So whenever you have viewGroup.add(myEditText); you would also have myList.add(myEditText);
Then when you press 'save' just loop on your list and use getText() to get the data from your EditText fields.
I'm sure there are also other ways to accomplish this ;)
btn_no_of.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String str1=edittext1.gettext.tostring();
String str2=edittext2.gettext.tostring();
}
});

How would i store a number/string into R.string.xx?

with this code, my program just force close(error)
***public View x = findViewById(R.string.nfoname);***
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.information);
//edittext
***final EditText infoname=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.infoname);***
//clear,confirm
Button clear = (Button)findViewById(R.id.buttonclear);
Button confirm = (Button)findViewById(R.id.buttonconfirm);
//clear button
clear.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
infoname.setText("");
}
});
//confirm button
confirm.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
***x=(View) infoname.getText();***
}
});
}
the one with the * are the source of error
program function:
if the user clicks confirm, his name will be set to R.string.nfoname
which will then be used in another layout through TextView x = setText(R.string.nfoname);
I am not sure that you can save text to the R.string. This is a generated class that the compiler creates for you. It gets packaged with your apk. Think of the resources as a means of translation and to present text to the screen.
I think what you would want to do is save the user input as a SharedPreference or in a database.
See:SharedPreferences on the android docs for an example usage.
At least in the case of your variable infoname scoping is most likely causing your application to throw an error. infoname is a local variable to the function onCreate(), not an instance variable for your class, so it can't be accessed by your onClick() methods because they are part of an anonymous class.
Another thing I'd question is why you marked infoname as final? It goes out of scope when onCreate() exits so if it gets changed, you can see who changed it since it only exists while the method is executing.
You cannot set values to R.string.xxx because all these values will be constants much like a read only stuff. If you want to use the value of edit text to another layout use class variables or intent.putextra()
Coming to ur source code i see this
public View x = findViewById(R.string.nfoname);
How can a view be found by R.String? This should be R.id.
final EditText infoname=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.infoname);
Why this editText has to be final?
***x=(View) infoname.getText();***
You just use infoname.getText().toString() you will get the string value of the Edittext's current text.
Dude you can do stuff simply.
public View x = findViewById(R.string.nfoname);
This can't work as not only are you trying to find a View using a R.string resource id, you are doing it before setContenView(...) is called in your onCreate(...) method. Even if you used a valid View resource id such as R.id.infoname then x will be null because the content view hasn't been inflated yet.
final EditText infoname=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.infoname);
Apart from the pointless use of final this should'nt cause problems as long as R.id.infoname is actually the resource id of an EditText.
x=(View) infoname.getText();
Not only will x be null but calling getText() on an EditText returns an Editable which is not a View nor is it possible to cast it to View. Even if you used getText().toString() which is the correct way to get the text from an EditText it still wouldn't be possible to cast a String to a View.
Also, as for this...
TextView x = setText(R.string.nfoname);
It would have to be...
TextView x = (TextView) findViewById(<some id>);
x.setText(getString(R.string.nfoname));

Button onclick listener must be displayed in edittext

I am developing an application for Android.
My application contains ten buttons, to which I have set an onclicklistener() method.
The ten buttons contains the digits 0-9.
Now, if I click any two or three buttons among the ten buttons, the corresponding digits must be entered into edit text and it must be shown in the edittext box.
I am able to display the single digit if I click on any of the buttons, but if I click on another button, then the previous value disappears and the new value is shown.
But what I want is this: no matter how many buttons I click, that no. of digits will appear in the edittext box.
Please can anyone explain to me the code, or give me a hint so that it can be made in a simpler way.
Using Shared Preferences:
I think, you may used Shared Preferences when you button was click, get value from Edittext and put on shared preferences. After click next button get that shared preferences value. You may used each button click put on value shared preferences.
Go to this problem, which is help you to solve: >> SharedPreference problem in android
Using Intent:
May be used this code on button click event:
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
String value1 = extras.getString("Value1");
String value2 = extras.getString("Value2");
if (value1 != null && value2 != null) {
EditText text1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.EditText01);
EditText text2 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.EditText02);
text1.setText(value1);
text2.setText(value2);
}
Other useful resources:
Get Value of a Edit Text field
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-user-interface-design-edittext-controls/
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Android/UI/GetvaluefromEditText.htm
http://geekswithblogs.net/bosuch/archive/2011/01/17/android---passing-data-between-activities.aspx
You are using editText.setText("");
Instead you must use editText.append();
You can take a public static String variable and concat the new value to previous and set it to EditText
Use below code
public class AsActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
Button b1,b2,b3;
EditText et;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
b1=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
b2=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button2);
b3=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button3);
et=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
}
public void onclick(View v){
switch(v.getId()){
case R.id.button1:
et.append("1");
break;
case R.id.button2:
et.append("2");
break;
case R.id.button3:
et.append("3");
break;
}
}
}
here i have use property of button you can use switch statement as shown above in ur onclicklistener
In all 0-9 buttons onclick event you can write following code.
editText.setText((editText.getText().toString) +""+ nevText);
When you click on button then above code set newText with previous text in edittext box.
You should use the EditText append() method which appends data to the EditText.
So each time a new button is clicked just use :
myEdtiText.append(str);

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