How to capture the checkbox options in a custom dialog? - android

My aim
I've made a custom dialog composed of a scrollable list view on top and an "OK" button at the bottom. For each row in the list view I've put a checkbox and I wish to capture the checkboxes that are selected when "OK" is clicked.
Problem
After checking out some tutorials online as well as some Q&A here, I've come up with a basic approach. What I did is
1. in the adapter for the list view, I attach the option name to each checkbox by setTag() when it is created
2. set up an onCheckedChangeListener in the adapter that puts the checked option into an array or remove the option if it's deselected
3. in the onCreateDialog within the main UI activity attach an OnClickListener to the "OK" button and make it retrieve the options array (obtained in step 2) from the adapter.
It works in the end; but I think it's too much trouble and not elegant. I thought about using onItemClickListener for the list view or putting a custom view into an AlertDialog (which offers better button/checkbox management), but gave up after some trials.
Is there anyone who can think of a better approach?

I needed a fairly complex dialog and I ended up writing it as a widget that extends RelativeLayout. When my calendar icon is clicked, it starts an activity which uses the widget, populates days in a calendar, depending on content from a database:
When you extend a layout, you have complete control over how it sizes itself, layout and what it draws on the canvas.
The activity implements OnTouchListener to pick up which date on the calendar has been touched - I'm sure the same could apply to adding images and picking up which checkboxes had been selected.

read about alertdialog with multichoice mode.

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The problem is that you cannot use the standard ListView in your case, because in the standard ListView, the View of each row has to be one TextView.
In your case, you need it to be at least two TextViews (The standard Text, and the one that's gonna show up onClick/onFocus).
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Here is a code snippet that shows how to do it properly:
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In the getView(), you have to inflate the XML file that describes your List Row, and return it.
In your case, I believe your XML file should contain 2 TextViews, one visible and one invisible.
Then, to handle the clicks, you can set a onItemClickListener on your ListView in your Activity class.
The best way may be to have your Activity class implementing onItemClickListener, and to use this onItemClickListener to handle those.
In the onClick() function, you just have to set the Visibility of your hidden TextView to VISIBLE.
You need to build custom rows, and handle showing more text on each row, there is no easy magicall way of doing it, but inflating your own rows, and setting a couple of attributes visibility isnt all that hard either.

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