Get Selected Item Using Checkbox in Listview

Assuming you want to get items of row whose check boxes are checked at the click of a button. Assumption based on your title "Get Selected Item Using Checkbox in Listview when I click a Button".

Try the below. Make only changes as below. Keep the rest the same.

Explanation and discussion on the topic @

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-developers/No0LrgJ6q2M

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
     AppInfoAdapter adapter ;
     AppInfo app_info[] ;
        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);


            final ListView listApplication = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.listApplication);
            Button b= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
            b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
            {

                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
                    for(int i=0;i<adapter.mCheckStates.size();i++)
                    {
                        if(adapter.mCheckStates.get(i)==true)
                        {

                                           result.append(app_info[i].applicationName);
                            result.append("\n");
                        }

                    }
                    Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, result, 1000).show();
                }

            });

            ApplicationInfo applicationInfo = getApplicationInfo();
            PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
            List<PackageInfo> pInfo = new ArrayList<PackageInfo>();
            pInfo.addAll(pm.getInstalledPackages(0));
            app_info = new AppInfo[pInfo.size()];

            int counter = 0;
            for(PackageInfo item: pInfo){
                try{

                    applicationInfo = pm.getApplicationInfo(item.packageName, 1);

                    app_info[counter] = new AppInfo(pm.getApplicationIcon(applicationInfo), 
                            String.valueOf(pm.getApplicationLabel(applicationInfo)));

                    System.out.println(counter);

                }
                catch(Exception e){
                     System.out.println(e.getMessage());
                }

                counter++;
            }

           adapter = new AppInfoAdapter(this, R.layout.listview_item_row, app_info);
            listApplication.setAdapter(adapter);

        }
}

activity_main.xml ListView with button at the buton

<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"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <ListView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:id="@+id/listApplication"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_above="@+id/button1"
        android:text="@string/hello_world" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:text="Button" />

</RelativeLayout>

AppInfoAdapter

public class AppInfoAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<AppInfo> implements CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener
{  SparseBooleanArray mCheckStates; 

    Context context;
    int layoutResourceId;
    AppInfo  data[] = null;

    public AppInfoAdapter(Context context, int layoutResourceId, AppInfo[] data){
        super(context, layoutResourceId,data);
        this.layoutResourceId = layoutResourceId;
        this.context = context;
        this.data = data;
        mCheckStates = new SparseBooleanArray(data.length);
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent){

        View row = convertView;
        AppInfoHolder holder= null;

        if (row == null){

            LayoutInflater inflater = ((Activity)context).getLayoutInflater();
            row = inflater.inflate(layoutResourceId, parent, false);

            holder = new AppInfoHolder();

            holder.imgIcon = (ImageView) row.findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
            holder.txtTitle = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.textView1);
            holder.chkSelect = (CheckBox) row.findViewById(R.id.checkBox1);

            row.setTag(holder);

        }
        else{
            holder = (AppInfoHolder)row.getTag();
        }


        AppInfo appinfo = data[position];
        holder.txtTitle.setText(appinfo.applicationName);
        holder.imgIcon.setImageDrawable(appinfo.icon);
       // holder.chkSelect.setChecked(true);
        holder.chkSelect.setTag(position);
        holder.chkSelect.setChecked(mCheckStates.get(position, false));
        holder.chkSelect.setOnCheckedChangeListener(this);
        return row;

    }
    public boolean isChecked(int position) {
        return mCheckStates.get(position, false);
    }

    public void setChecked(int position, boolean isChecked) {
        mCheckStates.put(position, isChecked);

    }

    public void toggle(int position) {
        setChecked(position, !isChecked(position));

    }
@Override
public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView,
        boolean isChecked) {

     mCheckStates.put((Integer) buttonView.getTag(), isChecked);    

}
static class AppInfoHolder
{
    ImageView imgIcon;
    TextView txtTitle;
    CheckBox chkSelect;

}
}

Here's the snap shot

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It's a simplifications but very easy... You need to add the the focusable flag to the checkbox, as written before. You need also to add the clickable flag, as shown here:

android:focusable="false"
android:clickable="false"

Than you control the checkbox state from within the ListView (ListFragment in my case) onListItemClick event.

This the sample onListItemClick method:

public void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
super.onListItemClick(l, v, position, id);
//Get related checkbox and change flag status..
CheckBox cb = (CheckBox)v.findViewById(R.id.rowDone);
cb.setChecked(!cb.isChecked());
Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "Click item", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}