Alternative radio buttons in Android

Question

Is there a recommended alternative to the standard solutions "Radio buttons nearby" when we need to show a small set of parameters (2 or 3) to the user? I mean, we usually do this:

But I saw a lot of applications adapting something like iOS’s “Segmented Controls”:

What I don’t think is good practice at all.

In my case specifically, I do not think that hiding some parameters would be useful for the user, so Spinners is not a real option. I won’t change any ideas either, so I don’t like bookmarks or anything like that. And then we have buttons and switches that, it seems to me, do not fit my needs, because I will not switch between states. And finally, we have this article, which suggests using simple regular buttons: http://kintek.com.au/blog/portkit-ux-metaphor-equivalents-for-ios-and-android/

I tend to use a regular button implementation like in this article, but I wanted to know if there is any elegant alternative to this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

UX Stack Exchange has a lot of questions on the topic of radio buttons for segmented controls, and there is, in particular, a question about inserting radio buttons and checkboxes into buttons, but I can’t find it at the moment, I also, to the detriment of you and other readers , I can’t add images or more than two links to my answer (so it’s bad to put them in plain text), because I don’t have enough reputation. Thanks who!

I think the main problem with the segmented control is that to quote the Pdxd user on the UX Stack question: Is there any reason to use a set of buttons on the radio buttons / dropdowns?

to use the buttons on the buttons, it’s hard to understand that you can only select one option at a time

I think this is especially true outside the context of the mobile.

I personally am a big fan of what the product design team at Dualingo does: they combined classic horizontal radio buttons and inserted them into buttons to make targets big enough for touch-screen devices . Personally, I think this is the best solution.

jQuery mobile does something similar to this for vertically stacked radio buttons , but it’s worth noting that in recent versions it uses segmented controls for horizontal radios on jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile .