I am relatively new to Android development but I do have a pretty good understanding of Java and xml etc. so excuse me if this is an easy question and I just can't put two and two together.
Anyway, I am trying to have a user input a few characters into an EditText field. When they press a Button, it will call a method that will output a String. I then want this String to be displayed on the same activity as the EditText field and Button.
How do I go about taking the String variable that is the result of the method and putting into a String in the strings.xml file?
See this question. I don't think that is possible, what you probably want to do is store what the user enters in SharedPreferences.
EDIT:
To take the string variable and display it on the screen you would want to add a TextView to your layout:
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/textview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text=""/>
Then in code you will add a listener to your button to listen for click events, and have a reference to the TextView in your class:
Fields in class:
TextView tv;
Button myButton;
EditText et;
onCreate():
tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview);
myButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button);
et = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edittext);
//Now set the onclick listener:
myButton.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(args....)
{
String txt = et.getText().toString();
tv.setText(txt);
}
});
Also check out this tutorial.
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I tried to set the id but i very confuse and don know how to get the data of the new edit text. editText can create like XML file that #\id\blabla. or using other ways to get the editText id to get the data?
btnAddStep.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
hintIngre++;
edittTxt.setHint("Example : 1 ");
editText.setId(hintIngre);
parentLayout.addView(edittTxt);
}
});
You may create edittext in xml like this
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/edt"
android:hint="exmple 1"/>
And getting value from it like this
EditText editText = findViewById(R.id.edt);
String text = editText.getText().toString();
You are using same editText and adding multiple views to the parent. You can used xml to draw edit text or you can draw programmatically.
As you are adding all the editText to the parentLayout, you can traverse the child of parent to get each edit text and you can retrieve the text by editText.getText()
I'm trying to get my button to create a text field where the user can input information. This way they can only create as many lines as they would like. Also, is there a way to create multiple fields at once?
So, it'll end up being something like this:
"Add Event" (rest of the screen is blank until they click on that button)
Text field 1/ Text field 2/ Text field 3
(once they press that button and of course without the underlines, just an example)
So they can put in information that they want there. If they want another row, they click on the add button again.
Am I supposed to be using an onClickListener? I'm confused as to how I would go about making the button create that field for the user.
public class BudgetScreen extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_budget_screen);
Button addBillExpense = (Button) findViewById(R.id.addBillExpense);
addBillExpense.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick (View v) {
TextView inputField = new TextView(BudgetScreen.this);
}
});
}
}
That is what I have so far. I've been stuck on this for a hot minute. I am aware that I haven't used "inputField" yet.
Suppose you have the following layout xml:
<LinearLayout ...>
<Button .../>
<LinearLayout ...
android:id="#+id/holder"
android:orientation="vertical">
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
in button onClickListener you can have something like:
LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.holder);
EditText et = new EditText(this);
LayoutParams lp = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
layout.addView(et,lp);
You can change the LayoutParams to get the layout you like.
If you want multiple EditText in a single row, you can do the following:
final int NUM_EDITTEXT_PER_ROW = 3;
LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.holder);
Display display = ((WindowManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
int width = display.getWidth()/NUM_EDITTEXT_PER_ROW;
LinearLayout tempLayout = new LinearLayout(this);
tempLayout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);
for(int i=0;i<NUM_EDITTEXT_PER_ROW;i++){
EditText et = new EditText(this);
LayoutParams lp = new LayoutParams(width,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
tempLayout.addView(et,lp);
}
layout.addView(tempLayout);
I have a program that handles song objects with some fields and playlist objects that are arrays of the songs. I have a perfectly functioning java programming that does what I need it to do but I'm trying to convert it into an Android app and it's making me want to throw my computer out the window. I don't really know XML but I've gotten the basics such as creating buttons etc.
I have a button in the layout file that I implemented as follows:
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:text="#string/Button"
android:onClick="newPlaylist"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/button1"
android:layout_below="#+id/button1" />
In my main file I have:
public void newPlaylist(View view){
Playlist list1 = new Playlist("First Playlist");
TextView first = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
first.setText(list1.getName());
}
Edit: I was able to add a little to the newPlaylist method. Now when I click the button it displays the name of the playlist, but I still want to edit it and be able to have multiple playlists on the screen to manipulate.
All I want to do is display the playlist name as either a text or label that is clickable so that the name can be changed and I can move on from here.
The Android documentation on the button component might help you with your problem.
I assume that your Playlist class looks something like this
public class Playlist {
private String name;
public Playlist(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
}
If it does, then your method for handling the button click should look like this.
public void newPlaylist(View view) {
Playlist playlist = new Playlist("My First Playlist!"); // Create our playlist object
// Since button is the only component that uses 'newPlaylist' as a click listener, the view will always be the button
Button button = (Button) view; // We cast the view to button
button.setText(playlist.getName()); // This edits the button text, might want to create a TextView for this
}
I am trying to develop a chat room for an Android App. I have a created some area for EditText and a corresponding button to Enter the text that is typed by a user.
On clicking on Enter I want to display the typed text on the same screen i.e. whatever text is being typed, it is subsequently being displayed on the same screen. I am using Linear Layout(Horizontal) for my app.
How can I implement this ?? Can someone help me with the code. I am totally new to Android Development Framework. Thanks and Regards.
Its very simple. You create the xml file with one textView and one edittext and one button. Then you handle the event of button click in mainActivity and call onResume from it. Override the onResume so that you can update the textview.
#Override
protected void onResume() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onResume();
TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtView1);
EditText editBox = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.txtBox1);
String str = text.getText().toString();
text.setText(str+" "+editBox.getText().toString());
editBox.setText("");
editBox.setHint("Type in here");
}
You can use 'Toast' to display the msg or use another 'TextView' which is set using 'setText()'
main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/linearLayout1" android:layout_width="match_parent"android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_height="match_parent">
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/linearLayout2"android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<EditText...
<Button...
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
setContentView(R.Layout.main);
LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.linearLayout1); //Layout where you want to put your new dynamic TextView.
String s=editText.getText().toString(); //Fetching String from your EditText
TextView tv = new TextView(this);
tv.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
tv.setText(s);
ll.addView(tv); //Add TextView inside the Layout.
You can use an one editText for input and one TextView for displaying the typed message:
tvChatWindow = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvChatWindow);
etInputWindow = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etInputWindow);
btnEnter = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnEnter);
btnEnter.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
// send message to other chat clients here
//add a new line break character and the typed string to Chat Window
tvChatWindow.append("\n" + etInputWindow.getText().toString());
//clear the text you have typed on the edittext
etInputWindow.setText("");
}
});
I am working on a android program. A user clicks on a button I do some math and I would like to change the values that I have on my view in some TextView objects. Can someone please tell me how to do it in my code?
I presume that this question is a continuation of this one.
What are you trying to do? Do you really want to dynamically change the text in your TextView objects when the user clicks a button? You can certainly do that, if you have a reason, but, if the text is static, it is usually set in the main.xml file, like this:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/rate"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/rate"
/>
The string "#string/rate" refers to an entry in your strings.xml file that looks like this:
<string name="rate">Rate</string>
If you really want to change this text later, you can do so by using Nikolay's example - you'd get a reference to the TextView by utilizing the id defined for it within main.xml, like this:
final TextView textViewToChange = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.rate);
textViewToChange.setText(
"The new text that I'd like to display now that the user has pushed a button.");
First we need to find a Button:
Button mButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.my_button);
After that, you must implement View.OnClickListener and there you should find the TextView and execute the method setText:
mButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener {
public void onClick(View v) {
final TextView mTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.my_text_view);
mTextView.setText("Some Text");
}
});
First, add a textView in the XML file
<TextView
android:id="#+id/rate_id"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/what_U_want_to_display_in_first_time"
/>
then add a button in xml file with id btn_change_textView and write this two line of code in onCreate() method of activity
Button btn= (Button) findViewById(R.id. btn_change_textView);
TextView textView=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.rate_id);
then use clickListener() on button object like this
btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener {
public void onClick(View v) {
textView.setText("write here what u want to display after button click in string");
}
});