How to make checkbox looks like a button in android?

Question

This image is from medium android application. The white boxes are the selected items. How can I make list of items like this and let the user select some of them in android?

Answer 1

You can import two images and use one or the other depending on if the item is selected or not, for this you need to use a selector.

It´s like this one android button selector ,

Also, I recommend you to use a 9-patch images, you can see more about it here https://developer.android.com/studio/write/draw9patch.html

As the webpage says "They are bitmap images that automatically resize to accommodate the contents of the view and the size of the screen" so I think they would be perfect for your application