Hide only checkbox box not it's text in Android

Question

How I can hide checkbox box only, but not checkbox text in . Checkbox is created programmatically.

myCheckBox.setVisibility(View.GONE) hides the whole checkbox with text also included. I would like to show only text but not box icon.

Looking forward to hear from you soon.

See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16063135/removing-the-box-from-the-checkbox-in-android. — CoolMind, Nov 26 '19 at 08:50

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '14 at 11:51

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This works for me:

Drawable transparentDrawable = new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT);
myCheckBox.setButtonDrawable(transparentDrawable);

answered Dec 04 '14 at 11:51

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '14 at 11:14

You can do like, don't give text value in checkbox element,you use separate textview for text and hide checkbox. Example

         <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Hindustan"/>
        <CheckBox
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:visibility="invisible"
            android:id="@+id/hindustanCB"/>

Hide only checkbox box not it's text in Android

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