Question

I wanted a clickable TextView that changes color and holds it, that changes previously changed text back to default color. And of course I wanted some state to be changed when each TextView was “checked.” Basically a TextView that acts like a RadioButton, or a RadioButton minus the button.

At first I tried to come at from the TextView angle. But it seems like using RadioButtons and adding text behavior is easier since RadioButtons extend TextView anyway.

So I have this color resource applied to each RadioButton:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="false" android:color="#0000ff" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#0000ff" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#0000ff" />
<item android:state_checked="true" android:color="#0000ff" />
<item android:color="#ff00ff00" />
</selector>

That gets me the text behavior I want. Now I just need a way to hide the RadioButton itself. Ideally this would be in XML so I can just apply a style to various RadioButton, but I’m not going to turn my nose up at a RadioButton extension.

So, anybody know how to hide the RadioButton button itself?

Answer 1

You should use CheckedTextView. It supports checked state.

OR

You can use RadioButton and set its button to null:

<RadioButton
    android:id="@+id/button"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="@color/selector"
    android:button="@null"
    android:paddingLeft="0dip"/>