How to keep state of RadioButton in Android?

Question

Hi I'm trying to develop an application which runs for every interval time, lets say for every 1 minute it will display some Toast message.

But problem is I'm using RadioButton functionality is perfect but when I tap on one radio button it will be green, but when I close and re-open the activity I'll get as none of the radio buttons selected.

Here is my MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}

public void onRadioButtonClicked(View view) {
    // Is the button now checked?
    boolean checked = ((RadioButton) view).isChecked();

    // Check which radio button was clicked
    switch(view.getId()) {
        case R.id.radio_one_min:
            if (checked)
            {
                //some code
            }
            break;
        case R.id.radio_ten_min:
            if (checked)
            {
                //some code
            }  
            break;

        case R.id.radio_disable:
            if (checked)
            {
                //some code
            }  
            break;   
    }
}
}

and here is my activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RadioGroup xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:id="@+id/radio">
<RadioButton android:id="@+id/radio_disable"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Disable"
    android:onClick="onRadioButtonClicked"/>
<RadioButton android:id="@+id/radio_one_min"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="1 minute"
    android:onClick="onRadioButtonClicked"/>
<RadioButton android:id="@+id/radio_ten_min"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="10 minute"
    android:onClick="onRadioButtonClicked"/>
</RadioGroup>

Please help me to solve this riddle.

Thanks in advance...

i think this is relative http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151777/saving-activity-state-in-android?rq=1 — karan, Jul 11 '13 at 09:19
@Bhavin Nattar But how to use `onSaveInstanceState` and 'onRestoreInstanceState` in my code to save `RadioButton` state. — Chethan Shetty, Jul 11 '13 at 09:25

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '13 at 09:45

it is the simplest way to do so,no need of sharedpreference at all.you will get confused while using it.keep the things simple like this

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
Public static int flag=0;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
if(flag==1)
radio_one_min.setChecked(true);
else if(flag==2)
radio_ten_min.setCheckek(true);
else if(flag==3)
radio_disable.setCheckek(true);

}

public void onRadioButtonClicked(View view) {
// Is the button now checked?
boolean checked = ((RadioButton) view).isChecked();

// Check which radio button was clicked
switch(view.getId()) {
    case R.id.radio_one_min:
        if (checked)
        {
flag =1;
            //some code
        }
        break;
    case R.id.radio_ten_min:
        if (checked)
        {
  flag=2 ;             
 //some code
        }  
        break;

    case R.id.radio_disable:
        if (checked)
        {
 flag=3;
            //some code
        }  
        break;   
}
 }
}

It won't work buddy, I already tried this one before posting. — Chethan Shetty, Jul 11 '13 at 09:48
@ChethanShetty have you declared the flag as static..i dont think you have so — Shakeeb Ayaz, Jul 11 '13 at 09:51
@ChethanShetty it worked for me..just check whether you have tried of declaring the flag as static variable — Shakeeb Ayaz, Jul 11 '13 at 10:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 11 '13 at 10:07

This code is useful for store the ratingbar state, when we start new activity, you will see the previous rating state..

package com.example.ratingbar;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.RatingBar;
import android.widget.RatingBar.OnRatingBarChangeListener;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class RatingbarMainActivity extends Activity {

RatingBar ratingbarClick;
Button sub_btn;
TextView textRatingView , textRatingViewSave;
Boolean val = true;
float ans = (float) 0.0;
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_ratingbar_main);

    ratingbarClick = (RatingBar) findViewById(R.id.ratingBar1);
    ratingbarClick.setOnRatingBarChangeListener(rateObj);


    SharedPreferences sharePref = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences
             (RatingbarMainActivity.this);

    ans = sharePref.getFloat("Get_Rating", 0.0f);
    System.out.println("--------------------------------------ans = " + ans);
    if(val) {
        ratingbarClick.setRating(ans);
    }
    else {
        ratingbarClick.setRating(ans);
    }

    textRatingView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.ratingView);


}

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    RatingBar.OnRatingBarChangeListener rateObj = new RatingBar.OnRatingBarChangeListener() {

        @Override
        public void onRatingChanged(RatingBar ratingBar, float rating,boolean fromUser) {

            //textRatingView.setText(String.valueOf(rating));
            ans = ratingbarClick.getRating();

            SharedPreferences sharePref = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences
                            (RatingbarMainActivity.this);
            SharedPreferences.Editor edit = sharePref.edit();
            edit.putFloat("Get_Rating", ans);
            edit.commit();
            val = false;

        }
    };


//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    }

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    activity_ratingbar_main.xml file 

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/ratingBar1"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="23dp"
    android:text="Select Your Rating Bar Here"
    tools:context=".RatingbarMainActivity" />

<RatingBar
    android:id="@+id/ratingBar1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_marginLeft="21dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="63dp" />


<TextView
    android:id="@+id/ratingView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/ratingBar1"
    android:text="TextView" />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button1"
    style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:text="Click To Save Rating In TextBox" />

 </RelativeLayout>

Vlad K. · Answer 3 · 2013-07-11T13:11:49.940

[EDITED]

I found developer.android.com/training/basics/activity-lifecycle/recreating.html document first, so my first guess was using Bundles and on Save/Resume Instace State methods. However this does not seem to work well.

Here's my final attempt at a working solution (using SharedPreferences class, as suggested by some users):

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.content.SharedPreferences.Editor;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.RadioButton;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

final String PREFERENCES = "prefs";
final String RADIO_BUTTON = "prefsval";

SharedPreferences sp;
Editor e;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    sp = this.getSharedPreferences(PREFERENCES, MODE_PRIVATE);
    e = sp.edit();
}

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    if (sp != null) {
        if (sp.getInt(RADIO_BUTTON, 0) != 0) {
            RadioButton rb;
            rb = (RadioButton) findViewById(sp.getInt(RADIO_BUTTON, 0));
            rb.setChecked(true);
        }
    }
}

public void onRadioButtonClicked(View view) {
    e.putInt(RADIO_BUTTON, view.getId());
    e.apply();
}
}

Thanks for your answer but unfortunately nothing is happening @Vlad K. — Chethan Shetty, Jul 11 '13 at 10:16
Thanks for your valuable time, but unfortunately not working. — Chethan Shetty, Jul 11 '13 at 13:38
I'm using `2.3.1 emulator` don't know why its not working for me. — Chethan Shetty, Jul 12 '13 at 04:44
@Chethan Do you have `android:allowBackup="true"` line under ` — Vlad K., Jul 12 '13 at 07:53

How to keep state of RadioButton in Android?

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