Android CheckBox text not displaying

Question

I\'m trying to dynamically create some CheckBoxes in one of my Android activities, but it\'s not rendering the text.

Here is my simplified code...

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Answer 1

I just did the same and found that I was using setText("") in the initialisation code rather than setChecked(false). Dur!

Answer 2

Of course I figure this out shortly after posting a bounty. ;) It turns out that since I was setting my container view's background color to white, the default white text was blending in. The solution was to set the text color of each checkbox. i.e.:

final LinearLayout attractedTo = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.register_attracted_to);

final CheckBox male = new CheckBox(this);
male.setText("Male");
male.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.foreground_text));
attractedTo.addView(male);

final CheckBox female = new CheckBox(this);
female.setText("Female");
female.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.foreground_text));
attractedTo.addView(female);

Answer 3

you are not setting the Layout parameters, Layout parameter says how the control will be shown

final CheckBox female = new CheckBox(this);
female.setText("Female");
female .setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f));
attractedTo.addView(female);

Answer 4

Maybe it's due to the simplification of your real code, but did you set width and height of your checkbox ?