RadioGroup: How to check programmatically

Watch out! checking the radiobutton with setChecked() is not changing the state inside the RadioGroup. For example this method from the radioGroup will return a wrong result: getCheckedRadioButtonId().

Check the radioGroup always with

mOption.check(R.id.option1);

you've been warned ;)


In your layout you can add android:checked="true" to CheckBox you want to be selected.

Or programmatically, you can use the setChecked method defined in the checkable interface:

RadioButton b = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.option1); b.setChecked(true);


try this if you want your radio button to be checked based on value of some variable e.g. "genderStr" then you can use following code snippet

    if(genderStr.equals("Male"))
       genderRG.check(R.id.maleRB);
    else 
       genderRG.check(R.id.femaleRB);

I use this code piece while working with indexes for radio group:

radioGroup.check(radioGroup.getChildAt(index).getId());