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A ToggleButton displays checked/unchecked states as a button. It is basically an on/off
button with a light indicator.

ToggleButton Attributes

Following are the important attributes related to ToggleButton control. You can check
Android official documentation for complete list of attributes and related methods
which you can use to change these attributes are run time.

Attribute Description
android:disabledAlph This is the alpha to apply to the indicator when disabled.
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android:textOff This is the text for the button when it is not checked.
android:textOn This is the text for the button when it is checked.

Inherited from android.widget.TextView Class:

Attribute Description
android:autoText If set, specifies that this TextView has a textual input
method and automatically corrects some common spelling
errors.
android:drawableBotto This is the drawable to be drawn below the text.
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android:drawableRight This is the drawable to be drawn to the right of the text.
android:editable If set, specifies that this TextView has an input method.
android:text This is the Text to display.

Inherited from android.view.View Class:

Attribute Description
android:background This is a drawable to use as the background.
android:contentDescriptio This defines text that briefly describes content of the
n view.
android:id This supplies an identifier name for this view,
android:onClick This is the name of the method in this View's context
to invoke when the view is clicked.
android:visibility This controls the initial visibility of the view.

Example

This example will take you through simple steps to show how to create your own
Android application using Linear Layout and ToggleButton.

Ste Description

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1 You will use Eclipse IDE to create an Android application and name it as
GUIDemo7 under a package com.example.guidemo7 as explained in the Hello
World Example chapter.
2 Modify src/MainActivity.java file to add a click event.
2 Modify the default content of res/layout/activity_main.xml file to include Android
UI control.
3 Define required constants in res/values/strings.xml file
4 Run the application to launch Android emulator and verify the result of the
changes done in the application.

Following is the content of the modified main activity file

src/com.example.guidemo7/MainActivity.java. This file can include each of the
fundamental lifecycle methods.

package com.example.guidemo7;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.widget.ToggleButton;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private ToggleButton toggleBtn1, toggleBtn2;

private Button btResult;

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

private void addListenerOnToggleButton() {

toggleBtn1 = (ToggleButton) findViewById

(R.id.toggleButton1);

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toggleBtn2 = (ToggleButton) findViewById

(R.id.toggleButton2);
btResult = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
btResult.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
result.append("START Condition - ").append
(toggleBtn1.getText());
result.append("\nSTOP Condition - ").append
(toggleBtn2.getText());
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, result.toString(),
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
/* Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar
if it is present */
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
}

Following will be the content of res/layout/activity_main.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" >

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"

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android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/example_togglebutton" />

<ToggleButton
android:id="@+id/toggleButton1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_marginTop="24dp" />

<Button
android:id="@+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/toggleButton1"
android:layout_marginLeft="19dp"
android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/toggleButton1"
android:text="@string/example_result" />

<ToggleButton
android:id="@+id/toggleButton2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignTop="@+id/toggleButton1"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView1"
android:textOff="@string/stop_togglebutton"
android:textOn="@string/start_togglebutton"
android:checked="true"/>

</RelativeLayout>

Following will be the content of res/values/strings.xml to define these new constants:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<resources>

<string name="app_name">GUIDemo7</string>
<string name="action_settings">Settings</string>

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<string name="example_togglebutton">Example showing

ToggleButton</string>
<string name="start_togglebutton">START</string>
<string name="stop_togglebutton">STOP</string>
<string name="example_result">Click Me</string>

</resources>

Following is the default content of AndroidManifest.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.guidemo7"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="8"
android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name="com.example.guidemo7.MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>

</manifest>

Let's try to run your GUIDemo7 application. I assume you had created your AVD while
doing environment setup. To run the app from Eclipse, open one of your project's
activity files and click Run icon from the toolbar. Eclipse installs the app on your AVD

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and starts it and if everything is fine with your setup and application, it will display
following Emulator window:

The following screen will appear:

The following screen will appear, conditions are shown when state of both the toggle
buttons are changed:

The following screen will appear, conditions are shown when state of 2nd toggle button
is changed to START:

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