How to set a radio button in Android

Question

I have an app that uses radio buttons. The default for this button is set in the main.xml file, ie:

android:id="@+id/rb_sat1E"
android:checked="true"

In the Java file I have:

final RadioButton radio1 = (RadioButton)findViewById(R.id.rb_sat1E);

I have also created a 'Reset' button in the main Java file and can use the following code to reset TextView information ie.

pos1_deg.setText("0.0");

But how do I reset a radio button? I would have thought it to be something like

radio1.setBoolean("TRUE");

But that does not work at all.

Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

For radioButton use

radio1.setChecked(true);

It does not make sense to have just one RadioButton. If you have more of them you need to uncheck others through

radio2.setChecked(false); ...

If your setting is just on/off use CheckBox.

Answer 2

If you want to do it in code, you can call the check member of RadioGroup:

radioGroup.check(R.id.radioButtonId);

This will check the button you specify and uncheck the others.

Answer 3

Or you can do it in the XML file :

In the RadioGroup using : android:checkedButton="id_button_to_check"

or in the RadioButton : android:checked="true"

Answer 4

Just to clarify this: if we have a RadioGroup with several RadioButtons and need to activate one by index, implies that:

radioGroup.check(R.id.radioButtonId)

and

radioGroup.getChildAt(index)`

We can to do:

radioGroup.check(radioGroup.getChildAt(index).getId());

Answer 5

if you have done the design in XML and want to show one of the checkbox in the group as checked when loading the page below solutions can help you

    <RadioGroup
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/txtLastNameSignUp"
        android:layout_margin="20dp"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:id="@+id/radioGroup">
<RadioButton
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:checked="true"
    android:id="@+id/Male"
    android:text="Male"/>
        <RadioButton
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/Female"
            android:text="Female"/>
        </RadioGroup>

Answer 6

Many times if your radio buttons belong to the same radioGroup then

radioButton.setChecked(true)

will not select the radio button properly. So to solve this problem try using your radioGroup.

radioGroup.check(R.id.radioButtonId)

Answer 7

Use this code

    ((RadioButton)findViewById(R.id.radio3)).setChecked(true);

mistake -> don't forget to give () for whole before setChecked() -> If u forget to do that setChecked() is not available for this radio button