I have two RadioButton
s inside a RadioGroup
. I want to set OnClickListener
on those RadioButton
s. Depending on which RadioButton
is clicked, I want to change the text of an EditText
. How can I achieve this?

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9 Answers
I'd think a better way is to use RadioGroup
and set the listener on this to change and update the View
accordingly (saves you having 2 or 3 or 4 etc listeners).
RadioGroup radioGroup = (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.yourRadioGroup);
radioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener()
{
@Override
public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
// checkedId is the RadioButton selected
}
});

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2Wasn't working for me, Eclipse suggested I add @Override, and that fixed. Thanks – Jack Franzen Jul 18 '14 at 09:29
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yea I would use radiogroup except it doesnt work unless its a direct parent in the xml and I cant keep it as a direct parent since this stupid radiobutton cannot be aligned to center so I had to enclose it in a linearlayout ... – Jaxx0rr Feb 09 '17 at 07:45
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you could try centering the radiobutton by putting **android:gravity="center"** in the xml under the RadioGroup tag. @RudolfRein – OuuGiii Dec 03 '17 at 17:57
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What do we do if the radiobutton is dynamically created, and doesnt have an id? – Arjun Issar Oct 09 '18 at 11:56
Hope this will help you...
RadioButton rb = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.yourFirstRadioButton);
rb.setOnClickListener(first_radio_listener);
and
OnClickListener first_radio_listener = new OnClickListener (){
public void onClick(View v) {
//Your Implementaions...
}
};

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1Worked like a charm, don't forget to add a semicolon after your last curly bracket on your on click listener – inVINCEable Dec 22 '14 at 13:43
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1Oldie but goodie. The accepted answer is leaner but doesn't handle the case of a user selecting something that's already selected. This handles it. Shame the radiogroup listener doesn't handle "setSelected" without regard for "changed". – JamieB Apr 13 '20 at 21:09
radioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener()
{
public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
// checkedId is the RadioButton selected
RadioButton rb=(RadioButton)findViewById(checkedId);
textViewChoice.setText("You Selected " + rb.getText());
//Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), rb.getText(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});

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2`group` is needed in `RadioButton rb=(RadioButton)group.findViewById(checkedId);` – Second Person Shooter Jan 31 '19 at 09:49
The question was about Detecting which radio button is clicked, this is how you can get which button is clicked
final RadioGroup radio = (RadioGroup) dialog.findViewById(R.id.radioGroup1);
radio.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener() {
@Override
public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
View radioButton = radio.findViewById(checkedId);
int index = radio.indexOfChild(radioButton);
// Add logic here
switch (index) {
case 0: // first button
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Selected button number " + index, 500).show();
break;
case 1: // secondbutton
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Selected button number " + index, 500).show();
break;
}
}
});

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For Kotlin Here is added the lambda expression and Optimized the Code.
radioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener { radioGroup, optionId ->
run {
when (optionId) {
R.id.radioButton1 -> {
// do something when radio button 1 is selected
}
R.id.radioButton2 -> {
// do something when radio button 2 is selected
}
// add more cases here to handle other buttons in the your RadioGroup
}
}
}
Hope this will help you. Thanks!

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You could also add listener from XML layout: android:onClick="onRadioButtonClicked"
in your <RadioButton/>
tag.
<RadioButton android:id="@+id/radio_pirates"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/pirates"
android:onClick="onRadioButtonClicked"/>
See Android developer SDK- Radio Buttons for details.

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Since this question isn't specific to Java, I would like to add how you can do it in Kotlin:
radio_group_id.setOnCheckedChangeListener({ radioGroup, optionId -> {
when (optionId) {
R.id.radio_button_1 -> {
// do something when radio button 1 is selected
}
// add more cases here to handle other buttons in the RadioGroup
}
}
})
Here radio_group_id
is the assigned android:id
of the concerned RadioGroup. To use it this way you would need to import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.your_layout_name.*
in your activity's Kotlin file. Also note that in case the radioGroup
lambda parameter is unused, it can be replaced with _
(an underscore) since Kotlin 1.1.

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Just in case someone else was struggeling with the accepted answer:
There are different OnCheckedChangeListener-Interfaces. I added to first one to see if a CheckBox was changed.
import android.widget.CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener;
vs
import android.widget.RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener;
When adding the snippet from Ricky I had errors:
The method setOnCheckedChangeListener(RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener) in the type RadioGroup is not applicable for the arguments (new CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener(){})
Can be fixed with answer from Ali :
new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener()
RadioGroup radioGroup = (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.yourRadioGroup);
radioGroup.setOnClickListener(v -> {
// get selected radio button from radioGroup
int selectedId = radioGroup.getCheckedRadioButtonId();
// find the radiobutton by returned id
radioButton = findViewById(selectedId);
String slectedValue=radioButton.getText()
});

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1Please provide an explanation for this answer instead of simply posting code. – ScoobyDrew18 Sep 04 '19 at 17:24
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last line need to be: 'String slectedValue=radioButton.getText().toString()' – Web.11 Nov 14 '19 at 15:30