Android getting value from selected radiobutton

Question

I have a piece of code with three RadioButtons within a RadioGroup. I want to set an onCheckedListener that will show the value of the RadioButton in a Toast. However what I have gotten so far is not working. How do I get the value of the RadioButton and display it in a Toast? This is my code:

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.RadioButton;
import android.widget.RadioGroup;
import android.widget.RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    RadioGroup rg;

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

        RadioGroup rg = (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.radioGroup1);
        final String value =
            ((RadioButton)findViewById(rg.getCheckedRadioButtonId()))
            .getText().toString();

        rg.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener() {
            public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
                Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), value, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
    }
}

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"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <RadioGroup
        android:id="@+id/radioGroup1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="152dp" >

        <RadioButton
            android:id="@+id/radio0"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Choose 1" />

         <RadioButton
            android:id="@+id/radio1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Choose 2" />

         <RadioButton
            android:id="@+id/radio2"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Choose 3" />
     </RadioGroup>
 </RelativeLayout>

score 211 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 23 '16 at 06:56

Tested and working. Check this

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.RadioButton;
import android.widget.RadioGroup;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MyAndroidAppActivity extends Activity {

  private RadioGroup radioGroup;
  private RadioButton radioButton;
  private Button btnDisplay;

  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    addListenerOnButton();

  }

  public void addListenerOnButton() {

    radioGroup = (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.radio);
    btnDisplay = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnDisplay);

    btnDisplay.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {

                // get selected radio button from radioGroup
            int selectedId = radioGroup.getCheckedRadioButtonId();

            // find the radiobutton by returned id
            radioButton = (RadioButton) findViewById(selectedId);

            Toast.makeText(MyAndroidAppActivity.this,
                radioButton.getText(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

        }

    });

  }
}

xml

<RadioGroup
        android:id="@+id/radio"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

        <RadioButton
            android:id="@+id/radioMale"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/radio_male" 
            android:checked="true" />

        <RadioButton
            android:id="@+id/radioFemale"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/radio_female" />

    </RadioGroup>

This is the thing u have seen from mykong link...instead of using button how can we get the selected id..for multiple radio group. — ajey, Feb 12 '14 at 04:43
Perfect!!! answer... easy to get radio button view, when user will click !! — Najib.Nj, Aug 03 '16 at 07:11

score 107 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 01 '19 at 23:19

In case, if you want to do some job on the selection of one of the radio buttons (without having any additional OK button or something), your code is fine, updated little.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

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

        RadioGroup rg = (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.radioGroup1);

        rg.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() 
        {
            public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
                switch(checkedId){
                    case R.id.radio0:
                        // do operations specific to this selection
                        break;
                    case R.id.radio1:
                        // do operations specific to this selection
                        break;
                    case R.id.radio2:
                        // do operations specific to this selection
                        break;
                }   
            }
        });
    }
}

Just a small correction, a very small one rather, you have declared 'rg' twice. It wont make a difference at all, just makes the code more readable. — Sanved, Aug 19 '18 at 18:06
@kaps faced this issue in api_31: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9092712/switch-case-statement-error-case-expressions-must-be-constant-expression — AL-zami, Jun 22 '23 at 17:42

score 18 · Answer 3 · answered May 21 '16 at 12:13

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radioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
       @Override
       public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId)
       {
           radioButton = (RadioButton) findViewById(checkedId);
           Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), radioButton.getText(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
       }
   }
   );

answered May 21 '16 at 12:13

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Better answer than the accepted one, IMHO – Chris Neve Sep 13 '22 at 09:27

score 12 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 18 '17 at 19:19

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int genid=gender.getCheckedRadioButtonId();
RadioButton radioButton = (RadioButton) findViewById(genid);
String gender=radioButton.getText().toString();

Hope this works. You can convert your output to string in the above manner. gender.getCheckedRadioButtonId(); - gender is the id of RadioGroup.

edited Apr 18 '17 at 19:19

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answered Apr 18 '17 at 19:16

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works fine! but when I save the data into firebase and if I miss any Radio btn to check app crashed with "Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.CharSequence android.widget.RadioButton.getText()' on a null object reference" any solution – Gobinda Jun 04 '20 at 11:51

score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 27 '17 at 06:17

mRadioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, @IdRes int checkedId) {
        RadioButton radioButton = (RadioButton)group.findViewById(checkedId);
    }
});

score 7 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 16 '17 at 22:07

For anyone who is populating programmatically and looking to get an index, you might notice that the checkedId changes as you return to the activity/fragment and you re-add those radio buttons. One way to get around that is to set a tag with the index:

    for(int i = 0; i < myNames.length; i++) {
        rB = new RadioButton(getContext());
        rB.setText(myNames[i]);
        rB.setTag(i);
        myRadioGroup.addView(rB,i);
    }

Then in your listener:

    myRadioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
            RadioButton radioButton = (RadioButton) group.findViewById(checkedId);
            int mySelectedIndex = (int) radioButton.getTag();
        }
    });

score 6 · Answer 7 · edited Mar 15 '21 at 06:43

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just use getCheckedRadioButtonId() function to determine wether if anything is checked, if -1 is the return value, you can avoid showing toast

edited Mar 15 '21 at 06:43

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answered Jan 13 '16 at 14:42

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score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 18 '17 at 04:49

Radiogroup rgteam;
String team;
rgteam.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, @IdRes int checkedId) {
            RadioButton rb= (RadioButton) findViewById(checkedId);
            team = rb.getText().toString();
        }
    });

score 2 · Answer 9 · answered May 02 '18 at 07:54

RadioGroup in XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RadioGroup
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical">
    <RadioButton
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Java"/>

    </RadioGroup>
</RelativeLayout>

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="150dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="100dp"
        android:textSize="18dp"
        android:text="Select Your Course"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:id="@+id/txtView"/>
<RadioGroup
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:id="@+id/rdGroup"
    android:layout_below="@+id/txtView">
    <RadioButton
        android:id="@+id/rdbJava"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="100dp"
        android:text="Java"
        android:onClick="onRadioButtonClicked"/>
    <RadioButton
        android:id="@+id/rdbPython"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="100dp"
        android:text="Python"
        android:onClick="onRadioButtonClicked"/>
    <RadioButton
        android:id="@+id/rdbAndroid"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="100dp"
        android:text="Android"
        android:onClick="onRadioButtonClicked"/>
    <RadioButton
        android:id="@+id/rdbAngular"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="100dp"
        android:text="AngularJS"
        android:onClick="onRadioButtonClicked"/>
</RadioGroup>
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/getBtn"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="100dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/rdGroup"
        android:text="Get Course" />
</RelativeLayout>

MainActivity.java

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.RadioButton;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    RadioButton android, java, angular, python;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        android = (RadioButton)findViewById(R.id.rdbAndroid);
        angular = (RadioButton)findViewById(R.id.rdbAngular);
        java = (RadioButton)findViewById(R.id.rdbJava);
        python = (RadioButton)findViewById(R.id.rdbPython);
        Button btn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.getBtn);
        btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String result = "Selected Course: ";
                result+= (android.isChecked())?"Android":(angular.isChecked())?"AngularJS":(java.isChecked())?"Java":(python.isChecked())?"Python":"";
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), result, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
    }
    public void onRadioButtonClicked(View view) {
        boolean checked = ((RadioButton) view).isChecked();
        String str="";
        // Check which radio button was clicked
        switch(view.getId()) {
            case R.id.rdbAndroid:
                if(checked)
                str = "Android Selected";
                break;
            case R.id.rdbAngular:
                if(checked)
                str = "AngularJS Selected";
                break;
            case R.id.rdbJava:
                if(checked)
                str = "Java Selected";
                break;
            case R.id.rdbPython:
                if(checked)
                str = "Python Selected";
                break;
        }
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), str, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

Jonathan Eduardo Tito Ontaneda · Answer 10 · 2017-05-23T20:43:50.700

Thanks a lot to Chris.

This is my solution:

RadioGroup radgroup_opcionesEventos = null;


 private static String[] arrayEventos = {
            "Congestión", "Derrumbe", "Accidente"
    };
@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_maps);
        radgroup_opcionesEventos = (RadioGroup)findViewById(R.id.rg_opciones_evento);
        int i=0;//a.new.ln
        for(String evento : arrayEventos) {
            //RadioButton nuevoRadio = crearRadioButton(evento);//a.old.ln
            RadioButton nuevoRadio = crearRadioButton(evento,i);//a.new.ln
            radgroup_opcionesEventos.addView(nuevoRadio,i);
        }

        RadioButton primerRadio = (RadioButton) radgroup_opcionesEventos.getChildAt(0);
        primerRadio.setChecked(true);
}

private RadioButton crearRadioButton(String evento, int n)
    {
        //RadioButton nuevoRadio = new RadioButton(this);//a.old.ln
        RadioButton nuevoRadio = new RadioButton(getApplicationContext());//a.new.ln

        LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = new RadioGroup.LayoutParams(
                RadioGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                RadioGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        nuevoRadio.setLayoutParams(params);
        nuevoRadio.setText(evento);
        nuevoRadio.setTag(evento);
        return nuevoRadio;
    }


@Override
    protected void onResume()
    {
        radgroup_opcionesEventos.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
                RadioButton radioButton = (RadioButton) group.findViewById(checkedId);
                //int mySelectedIndex = (int) radioButton.getTag();
                String mySelectedIndex = radioButton.getTag().toString();
            }
        });
        super.onResume();
    }

A. Vin · Answer 11 · 2016-01-26T22:26:26.103

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I have had problems getting radio buttons id's as well when the RadioButtons are dynamically generated. It does not seem to work if you try to manually set the ID's using RadioButton.setId(). What worked for me was to use View.getChildAt() and View.getParent() in order to iterate through the radio buttons and determine which one was checked. All you need is to first get the RadioGroup via findViewById(R.id.myRadioGroup) and then iterate through it's children. You'll know as you iterate through which button you are on, and you can simply use RadioButton.isChecked() to determine if that is the button that was checked.

edited Jan 26 '16 at 22:26

answered Dec 17 '15 at 17:10

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If you check chinna's answer, that page _is_ linked – Mike G Dec 17 '15 at 17:53
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@AbrahamUribe can you review my edited answer and see if it's better than the previous one that was flagged? – A. Vin Jan 26 '16 at 22:27
@mikeTheLiar you are correct, I did not notice the link in the original answer, that is my mistake. – A. Vin Jan 26 '16 at 22:27
For this case, I believe the better solution is to use setTag(i), where i is the index of the array you're using to populate the radio group. I added an answer to show that way of doing it. – Chris Feb 16 '17 at 22:09

Android getting value from selected radiobutton

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