Retrieving view name property in android?

Question

Is there anyway to retrieve the name of a view in android? Have been walking through the api and haven't seen any method to do this.

Possible duplicate of [How to get Resource Name from Resource id](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10137692/how-to-get-resource-name-from-resource-id) — ACBM, Nov 16 '15 at 00:50

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '12 at 10:33

9

use view.getId();, which is usually used in onClick(View v) method

// from View.OnClickListener
@Override
public void onClick(View v){
    switch( v.getId() ) {  // <= this is it
        case R.id.first_id:
         // do something
        break;
    }
}

answered Mar 12 '12 at 10:33

Marek Sebera

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Well, this is not a solution for me. I have a Radio group and each radio button name ends with a "index" in its name. I need to retrieve this to do some processing. I can't rely on the real radio button group index. – Notbad Mar 12 '12 at 10:40
Post your code then, so we can think about solution for your case. This is common solution, looks like you're looking for something else. – Marek Sebera Mar 12 '12 at 10:42
Thinking a bit more about my problem, I think your solution could fit with some changes to my code. As an android newbie I was facing the problem from another point of view. Thanks. – Notbad Mar 12 '12 at 11:03

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '12 at 10:55

View only contains id not name, I think it's not able to retrieve it.

From your comment, I think you can put the index to the android:tag attribute

such as

<RadioButton android:tag="1" />

Then you can invoke button.getTag to fetch the tag value. Hope this helps you get rid of the switch case statements..

Retrieving view name property in android?

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