what is the alternative of the checkboxes in android?

Question

I am creating a application in android

I want to add the categories of the food in my application .

now I am using the checkboxes . so if the restaurant have that category , he will check the checkbox . but, this is looking vary tedious , there are 35 number of checkboxes .so it looks very bad.

I don't know any other widgets that can I use in this situation ... suggest me if you get some idea. thanks...

You can try to use ListView with multiply choice http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362602/selecting-multiple-items-in-listview — Vyacheslav Shylkin, Mar 28 '12 at 10:46
when we ask question in the Stack overflow , we add the Tags to it , Is Android have that type of Tags facility ? — Munjal Upadhyay, Mar 28 '12 at 10:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '12 at 11:38

How about changing the colour of the row in listview on clicking the row(instead of putting a check box) like this..

private OnItemClickListener mMessageClickedHandler = new 
         OnItemClickListener() {
             public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int position, long id){
                 v.setBackgroundColor(R.color.green);<--- add this colour in resources

             }
         };

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '12 at 21:12

Well, this is quite a subjective question, however, I will still give my suggestion.

Check out this open source android-wheel. Generally, it is a widget that imitate iPhone style spin-wheel menu/drop down list for Android.

You can create/manage a list of checkbox (maybe plus some text and image for each item) using the wheel widget, which IMO will gives your app a quite clean and fashion design and looks.

Hope this helps.

what is the alternative of the checkboxes in android?

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