Code for simple ToggleButton in Android

What will we do ?
-> We will make a Simple Toggle Button and display a Toast when its state is changed.

What we will need ?

• Additions in activity_main.xml
• ToggleButton
• TextView
• Toast
• Additions in MainActivity.java

Step 1 : Create a New Project form File->New->Android Application Project.

Step 2 : Give a Name to the Project and Click on Next...... then Finish.

Step 3 : Open activity_main.xml found in res->layout folder from Project Explorer (already opened). Drag ToggleButton and a TextView on the Layout and then click on activity_main.xml as shown below.

activity_main.xml

<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"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="35dp"
        android:text="Press to change state"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

    <ToggleButton
        android:id="@+id/toggleButton1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="36dp"
        android:text="ToggleButton"
    android:onClick="onToggleClicked" />

</RelativeLayout>

Step 4 : Open MainActivity.java from src folder.

MainActivity.java 

package com.example.toggledemo;

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

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    ToggleButton tb1;
    
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        
        tb1 = (ToggleButton) findViewById(R.id.toggleButton1);
        

    }
    public void onToggleClicked(View view) {
        
        boolean on = ((ToggleButton) view).isChecked();
        
        if (on) {
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "It is ON",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
            
        else {
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "It is OFF",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();            
        }
       }
}

Step 5 : Run the Project.

Explanation of the code:
 Explanation for activity_main.xml

• A TextView just to show that you have to click the button below (optional)

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="35dp"
        android:text="Press to change state"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>

• A toggle button with id toggleButton1 for changing between states (like True/False) using a single Button.

<ToggleButton
        android:id="@+id/toggleButton1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="36dp"
        android:text="ToggleButton"
    android:onClick="onToggleClicked" />

Explanation of code from MainActivity.java

•  Made an instance of ToggleButton called tb1.

ToggleButton tb1;

• Match the instance declared above to the ToggleButton actually found in the activity_main.xml with id toggleButton1

tb1 = (ToggleButton) findViewById(R.id.toggleButton1);

•  Define an overridden method called onToggleClicked() to specify what happens when ToggleButton is clicked.

public void onToggleClicked(View view) {

• Make a boolean variable to store the ON state of the button by using isChecked() method.

boolean on = ((ToggleButton) view).isChecked();

• If the ToggleButton is ON display Toast as "Button is ON" else display Toast "Button is OFF"

if (on) {
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "It is ON",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
            
        else {
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "It is OFF",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();            
        }

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