Android CheckBox Example

In this tutorial, I am going to show how to use android CheckBox in android application. CheckBox is a two state button that user can select or unselect. Users can check one or more option from a set. Following is the simple steps to show and control CheckBox.

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Android Example: How to use Android CheckBox

Create a new Android Project

Let’s start by creating a new android project with following information to use android CheckBox

Application Name: Android CheckBox Example
Company Domain: viralandroid.com
Package Name: com.viralandroid.androidcheckboxexample
Minimum SDK: Android 2.2 (API 8 Froyo)

XML Layout File

Following is the xml layout file with many CheckBox and added onClick attribute in all CheckBox.
res/layout/activity_main.xml

Java Activity File

In java activity file we control the CheckBox select and the code looks like this.
src/MainActivity.java

Default content of strings.xml file
res/values/strings.xml

Now, run your application which looks like below.

Output: