I am a newbie in android dev.
I want to develop a very small and simple discount rate calculator.
in which there will be drop down menu with options like:

calculate 10%
calculate 20%
calculate 30%

Based on the selection of option from the drop down menu the discount rate should change.

After selection, there will be a textbox which should ask user to enter price.
and on the click even of "Calculate" button, the resultant amount (discounted rate) should be displayed.

I guess it is very simple for you guys. If anyone can help me with the code, i will deeply appreciate.

thank you

This is my requirement: http://www.anddev.org/post100049.html#p100049

ok this is what I have done till now:

I created an Android Project names as :MyDC

MyDC.java

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package com.super.mydc;



import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.view.View;

public class MyDC extends Activity {
   
   private EditText amount1;
   private double x=0;
     private double y=2.0;
     private double z=0;
     private TextView tt;
     private Button calculate;
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
       super.onCreate(icicle);
        // We want to view some very simple text, so we need a TextView
        TextView tv = new TextView(this);
        // Put some text to the newly created TextVIew
        tv.setText("Test");
        // Tell our Application to display the textView
       
       
        this.setContentView(tv);
       
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        initControls();
       
            }
   
    private void initControls()
    {
        amount1=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.amount1);
       
        tt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tt);
        calculate=(Button)findViewById(R.id.calculate);
        calculate.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener()
        {public void onClick
        (View  v) { calculate();}});
    }
   
    private void calculate()
    {
        x=Double.parseDouble(amount1.getText().toString());
        z=x-(x*y/100);
        tt.setText(Double.toString(z));
    }
}


This is main.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
    <Spinner android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/spinner1"></Spinner>
<TextView 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Enter the price"
    />
    <EditText android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/amount1" android:text="" android:layout_width="match_parent"></EditText>
    <Button android:text="Calculate Result" android:id="@+id/calculate" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></Button>

<EditText android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/tt" android:text="" android:layout_width="match_parent"></EditText>
   
</LinearLayout>



This is string.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="hello">Hi, MyDC!</string>
    <string name="app_name">My, DC</string>
    <string name="spinner1">Choose discount type</string>
   
   
</resources>



This is what I am able to get:



I am able to calculate discount on the button click, BUT i have hardcoded the discount rate.

I want to select discount rate based on the dropdown menu (I don't know how to set dropdown values with different discount rate in this problem)

In the dropdown menu I would like to have values like this:
Type 1 discount
Type 2 discount
Type 3 discount

Here is the respective discount rate for the above drop-down values:
Type 1 discount - 10%
Type 2 discount - 15%
Type 3 discount - 18%

PLZ HELP ME

you can populate a spinner field as follows:

In your activity something like follows

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//init ArrayAdapter with values from String xml
ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource( this, R.array.dropdown_values, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item );
adapter.setDropDownViewResource( android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item );
//set Adapter to be used on drop down box
dropDownField.setAdapter( adapter );

And in strings.xml in /res/values/

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<string-array name="dropdown_values">
   <item></item>
   <item>discount 1</item>
   <item>discount 2</item>
</string-array>

Ok rob, somehow I was able to add spinner tool on my application.

Now the question is how to select discount rate based on selected value from spinner.

PLZ HELP ME WITH THE CODE

Here is my current code:

MyDC.java

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package com.super.mydc;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Spinner;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Button;

import android.view.View;

public class MyDC extends Activity {
   
   private EditText amount1;
   private double x=0;
     private double y=2.0;
     private double z=0;
     private TextView tt;
     private Button calculate;
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
       super.onCreate(icicle);
        // We want to view some very simple text, so we need a TextView
        TextView tv = new TextView(this);
        // Put some text to the newly created TextVIew
        tv.setText("Test");
        // Tell our Application to display the textView
       
       
        this.setContentView(tv);
       
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
       
        Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
        ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
                this, R.array.planets_array, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
        adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinner.setAdapter(adapter);

       
       
        initControls();
       
       
            }
   
   
   
    private void initControls()
    {
        amount1=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.amount1);
       
        tt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tt);
        calculate=(Button)findViewById(R.id.calculate);
        calculate.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener()
        {public void onClick
        (View  v) { calculate();}});
    }
   
    private void calculate()
    {
        x=Double.parseDouble(amount1.getText().toString());
        z=x-(x*y/100);
        tt.setText(Double.toString(z));
    }
}


main.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
    <Spinner android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/spinner1"></Spinner>
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
        android:text="@string/planet_prompt"
    />
    <Spinner
        android:id="@+id/spinner"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:prompt="@string/planet_prompt"
    />
   
<TextView 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Enter the price"
    />
    <EditText android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/amount1" android:text="" android:layout_width="match_parent"></EditText>
    <Button android:text="Calculate Result" android:id="@+id/calculate" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></Button>

<EditText android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/tt" android:text="" android:layout_width="match_parent"></EditText>
   
</LinearLayout>



strings.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="hello">Hi, MyDC!</string>
    <string name="app_name">My, DC</string>
    <string name="spinner1">Choose a planet</string>
   
    <string name="planet_prompt">Choose a planet</string>
    <string-array name="planets_array">
        <item>10% discount A</item>
        <item>15% discount B</item>
        <item>18% discount C</item>
       
    </string-array>
   
</resources>



Ok, so in your calculate() method right now that triggers when you press the calculate button - in there you need code like:

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String discountSelected = discountDropDownField.getSelectedItem().toString();

That will give you a String telling you which item has been selected (Discount 1, Discount 2)

Then you can use that to drive which discount to apply - there are prob nicer ways, but something like this should work:

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//default discount rate to 10%
double discount = 0.1;

if ("15% discount B".equals(discountSelected)){
    discount = 0.15;
}
else
if ("18% discount C".equals(discountSelected)){
    discount = 0.18;
}

//now apply discount rate to value entered
...

ok rob,

I did what you mentioned above:

MyDC.java:

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package com.super.mydc;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Spinner;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Button;

import android.view.View;

public class MyDC extends Activity {
   
   private EditText amount1;
   private double x=0;
     private double y=2.0;
     private double z=0;
     private TextView tt;
     private Button calculate;
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
       super.onCreate(icicle);
        // We want to view some very simple text, so we need a TextView
        TextView tv = new TextView(this);
        // Put some text to the newly created TextVIew
        tv.setText("Test");
        // Tell our Application to display the textView
       
       
        this.setContentView(tv);
       
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
       
        Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
        ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
                this, R.array.planets_array, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
        adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinner.setAdapter(adapter);

        initControls();
       
            }
       
    private void initControls()
    {
        amount1=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.amount1);
       
        tt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tt);
        calculate=(Button)findViewById(R.id.calculate);
        calculate.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener()
        {public void onClick
        (View  v) { calculate();}});
    }
   
    private void calculate()
    {
        x=Double.parseDouble(amount1.getText().toString());
        z=x-(x*y/100);
        tt.setText(Double.toString(z));
        String discountSelected = discountDropDownField.getSelectedItem().toString();
    }
   
   
}


In my Calculate(), this line:

String discountSelected = discountDropDownField.getSelectedItem().toString();

it was giving error so I right-clicked on discountDropDownField and create new class for it

Here it is: discountDropDownField.java

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package com.super.mydc;

public class discountDropDownField {
   
   double discount = 0.0;{

   if ("10% discount A".equals(discountSelected)){
       discount = 0.1;
   }
   if ("15% discount B".equals(discountSelected)){
       discount = 0.15;
   }
   else
   if ("18% discount C".equals(discountSelected)){
       discount = 0.18;
   }
   }
}



If you see the code above, I changed default discount to 0.0 since I don't want any value to be selected by default in dropdown menu, so I will just an item saying "Select discount type". (I hope I am doing correctly).

But after adding all these code you provided me, I am getting a lot of error messages like this:

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discountSelected cannot be resolved to a variable   discountDropDownField.java line 7   Java Problem
discountSelected cannot be resolved to a variable   discountDropDownField.java line 10   Java Problem
discountSelected cannot be resolved to a variable   discountDropDownField.java line 14   Java Problem
The method getSelectedItem() is undefined for the type discountDropDownField   MyDC.java


please help...

dont need a new Class for the discount field - that should be the spinner field.

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Spinner discountDropDownField = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
String discountSelected = discountDropDownField.getSelectedItem().toString();

then once you have the discountSelecet string you can use the if block as mentioned in earlier post

so rob, you mean I don't need "discountDropDownField.java" that I created ?

So according to you everything should be in one page right ? in MyDC.java ?

This is MyDC.java

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package com.super.mydc;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Spinner;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Button;

import android.view.View;

public class MyDC extends Activity {
   
   private EditText amount1;
   private double x=0;
     private double y=2.0;
     private double z=0;
     private TextView tt;
     private Button calculate;
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
       super.onCreate(icicle);
        // We want to view some very simple text, so we need a TextView
        TextView tv = new TextView(this);
        // Put some text to the newly created TextVIew
        tv.setText("Test");
        // Tell our Application to display the textView
       
       
        this.setContentView(tv);
       
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
       
        Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
        Spinner discountDropDownField = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
        String discountSelected = discountDropDownField.getSelectedItem().toString();
        ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
                this, R.array.planets_array, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
        adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinner.setAdapter(adapter);

       
       
        initControls();   
                     
            }
       
    private void initControls()
    {
        amount1=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.amount1);
       
        tt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tt);
        calculate=(Button)findViewById(R.id.calculate);
        calculate.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener()
        {public void onClick
        (View  v) { calculate();}});
    }
   
    private void calculate()
    {
        x=Double.parseDouble(amount1.getText().toString());
        z=x-(x*y/100);
        tt.setText(Double.toString(z));
     
    }
   
    private void discountDropDownField {
       
       double discount = 0.0;{

       if ("10% discount A".equals(discountSelected)){
           discount = 0.1;
       }
       if ("15% discount B".equals(discountSelected)){
           discount = 0.15;
       }
       else
       if ("18% discount C".equals(discountSelected)){
           discount = 0.18;
       }
       }
    }
     
       
}


And I am getting these error messages:

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Description   Resource   Path   Location   Type
discountSelected cannot be resolved to a variable   MyDC.java   c   line 81   Java Problem
discountSelected cannot be resolved to a variable   MyDC.java      line 84   Java Problem
discountSelected cannot be resolved to a variable   MyDC.java      line 88   Java Problem
Syntax error, insert ";" to complete FieldDeclaration   MyDC.java      line 77   Java Problem
void is an invalid type for the variable discountDropDownField   MyDC.java      line 77   Java Problem


rob, I will deeply appreciate if you can create this program (whatever I did above) at your end. By that it will be easy for me to follow your directions and to understand the how you want me to add the code and where.

thnx

PLEASE HELP ME!!!