Get text from a pressed button

Question

How can I get the text with the button pressed? (Android)

I can get the text from the button:

String buttonText = button.getText(); 

I can get the id with the button pressed:

 int buttinID = view.getId(); 

At this moment, I can’t find out how to get the text of the pressed button.

 public void onClick(View view) { // Get the text on the pressed button } 

Answer 1

The view you passed to onClick() is the button you're looking for.

 public void onClick(View v) { // 1) Possibly check for instance of first Button b = (Button)v; String buttonText = b.getText().toString(); } 

1) If you use a non-anonymous class like onClickListener , you can check the type of the view before casting it, as it may be something other than a button.

Answer 2

If you are sure that the OnClickListener instance is applied to the Button, you can simply pass the resulting view to the button and get the text:

 public void onClick(View view){ Button b = (Button)view; String text = b.getText().toString(); } 

Answer 3

Try using:

 String buttonText = ((Button)v).getText().toString(); 

Answer 4

Try it,

 Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn); String btnText=btn.getText(); 

Answer 5

In Kotlin:

 myButton.setOnClickListener { doSomething((it as Button).text) } 

Note: this gets the button text in the form of CharSequence , which probably can use more places in the code. If you really need a string, then you can use .toString() .

Answer 6

Button btn = (Button) findViewById (R.id.btn);

String btnText = btn.getText (). ToString ();

later this btnText can be used

for example: if (btnText == "Text to compare")