android-chips

Change Chip Widget style programmatically not working – Android

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You can’t use the constructor val chip = Chip(context, null, R.style.CustomChipChoice) because the 3rd parameter isn’t the style but the attribute in the theme as R.attr.chipStyle. The Chip hasn’t a constructor with 4 parameters as other components because it extends AppCompatCheckbox which does not support a 4 parameter constructor. However you can use something different. … Read more

Android how to center align chips in chipgroup?

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I tried using Chip inside Flexbox and it worked like this. <com.google.android.flexbox.FlexboxLayout android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:gravity=”center” android:orientation=”horizontal” app:flexWrap=”wrap” app:justifyContent=”center”> … </com.google.android.flexbox.FlexboxLayout> There should be better ways for achieving this but this will work there I guess. Update (2021): I removed flexbox dependency due to stability and lack of updates from Google and am achieving the same … Read more

Set com.google.android.material.chip.Chip selected color

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Just set an attribute app:chipBackgroundColor and pass a color state list to it: <android.support.design.chip.Chip android:id=”@+id/test” android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:checkable=”true” android:clickable=”true” android:focusable=”true” app:chipBackgroundColor=”@color/bg_chip_state_list” app:chipText=”Test” /> bg_chip_state_list looks like this: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <selector xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”> <item android:color=”@color/colorSecondaryLight” android:state_checked=”true” /> <item android:color=”@color/colorPrimaryDark” /> </selector> However I also had to set android:clickable to true to make this work

Android Chip Custom Height Or Padding – Chipgroup spacing

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In the 1.1.0-alpha* versions extra spacing is added for the chip. After a lot of hit and trial I managed to remove that spacing using: app:chipMinTouchTargetSize=”0dp” Looking at the class file for Chip, it seems that it’s related to Android’s minimum touch target size, so consider that before changing this.

ChipGroup single selection

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To prevent all chips from being deselected you can use the method setSelectionRequired: chipGroup.setSelectionRequired(true) You can also define it in the layout using the app:selectionRequired attribute: <com.google.android.material.chip.ChipGroup app:singleSelection=”true” app:selectionRequired=”true” app:checkedChip=”@id/…” ..> Note: This requires a minimum of version 1.2.0

Android material chip component crashing app. Unable to inflate xml

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Update your app theme to inherit from one of these themes: Theme.MaterialComponents Theme.MaterialComponents.NoActionBar Theme.MaterialComponents.Light Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.NoActionBar Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.DarkActionBar For example: <style name=”AppTheme” parent=”Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.NoActionBar”> Note: Using a Material Components theme enables a custom view inflater Source: https://www.material.io/develop/android/docs/getting-started/

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