Creating A Fully Custom Checkbox in Android
A quick and simple guide to customizing your checkboxes in your android projects
When designing the user interface for your application, you want to make sure that your design is optimal, intuitive, and provides a pleasant user experience once published. To do this, you will likely want to use your own user interface objects or custom design than what the framework or sdk you are using is offering and sometimes it could be easy to implement because for most frameworks and sdk, these user interface objects are customizable and Android is no exception.
In this article, I’m going to show you how to fully customize your check boxes to tailor your user interface preferences with as little code as possible.
Creating the custom checkbox
The first step in creating our custom check boxes is to collect the required drawables that represent the checked and unchecked states of a checkbox, this is where you can design your own custom drawables that match your design preferences. For the purposes of this article, I got my custom designs from LogoMakr, on this website you can search on a wide variety of images and customize them as you like as icons or logos in your projects.
