I have 3 radio buttons and 10 checkboxes, I just want to prevent the user from choosing any checkboxes until it chooses one of the radio buttons first, please help.
4 Answers
Add RadioButton
inside radio group.
<RadioGroup
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/radio_group"
>
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/button1"
android:text="btn 1"
/>
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="btn 2"
android:id="@+id/button2"
/>
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/button3"
android:text="btn 3"
/>
</RadioGroup>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/radio_group"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/check1"
android:text="check 1"
/>
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/check2"
android:text="check 2"
/>
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/check3"
android:text="check 3"
/>
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/check4"
android:text="check 4"
/>
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/check5"
android:text="check 5"
/>
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/check6"
android:text="check 6"
/>
</LinearLayout>
And implement the RadioGroup onCheckChangeListener inside activity. before that make sure to disable all checkbox by checkbox.setEnabled(false)
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
RadioGroup radioGroup;
RadioButton radioButton1,radioButton2,radioButton3;
CheckBox checkBox1,checkBox2,checkBox3,checkBox4,checkBox5,checkBox6;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
radioGroup= (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.radio_group);
radioButton1= (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.button1);
radioButton2= (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.button2);
radioButton3= (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.button3);
checkBox1= (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.check1);
checkBox2= (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.check2);
checkBox3= (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.check3);
checkBox4= (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.check4);
checkBox5= (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.check5);
checkBox6= (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.check6);
checkBox1.setEnabled(false);
checkBox2.setEnabled(false);
checkBox3.setEnabled(false);
checkBox4.setEnabled(false);
checkBox5.setEnabled(false);
checkBox6.setEnabled(false);
radioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
@Override
public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
RadioButton checkedRadioButton = (RadioButton)group.findViewById(checkedId);
boolean isChecked = checkedRadioButton.isChecked();
if (isChecked){
checkBox1.setEnabled(true);
checkBox2.setEnabled(true);
checkBox3.setEnabled(true);
checkBox4.setEnabled(true);
checkBox5.setEnabled(true);
checkBox6.setEnabled(true);
}
}
});
}

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By default set all Checkboxes as a disabled. Then add check change listener for all Radio buttons. Add code to enable all Checkboxes on Radio button check change listener.

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Use RadioButtons methods, set Checkboxes as disabled and check if one of the radiobutton isSelected(), if true, set checkboxex enabled.

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You can either keep one radio button as selected, by default so the user will have to go with the default selection or will change selection - both ways you always have one radio button selected.
If you do not want to keep a default radio selection,
Use a radio group
RadioGroup radioGroup = (RadioGroup)findViewById(R.id.radioGroup);
Disable all the checkboxes in the beginning
checkBox.setEnabled(false);
Set onClick listener for radio group and enable checkBox inside.
radioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener() { @Override public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) { checkBox.setEnabled(false); } });

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