Java – Select the gender in android, such as radioButton

I’m working on a simple program where I want to be able to select my gender like radio button behavior, you can choose female or male, and the other choice should be unchecked. I have separate images of buttons, pressed and unpressed.

I’ve stored the state in a selector file:

button_female.xml:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/gender_f"/>
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/gender_f" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/gender_f_notpressed" />
</selector>

In layout/settings_activity.xml:

    <Button
        android:layout_width="130dp"
        android:layout_height="130dp"
        android:id="@+id/maleButton"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="80dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="220dp"
        android:drawable="@drawable/button_male"
        android:onClick="onGenderButtonClicked"
        />

In Activity, onClick is written

   public void onGenderButtonClicked(View view) {
        if(feButton.isPressed()){
            maButton.setEnabled(false);
            radioPressed = true;
        } else if (maButton.isPressed()){
            feButton.setEnabled(false);
            radioPressed = true;
        } else {
            radioPressed = false;
        }

}

However, this does not work for a number of reasons…

1: The picture on the button is not displayed, whether pressed or not.

2: My code is bad and the button doesn’t work as expected. I want them to behave like a radio group (you can choose male or female as your gender).

So I seem to have two questions here. Does anyone know of a good way to solve this problem? I’m new to writing Android apps…

If you need something like this:

You can use this layout:

<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=". MainActivity"
    >
        <RadioGroup
            android:id="@+id/radioGrp"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:background="@drawable/gender_old"
            android:paddingTop="64dp"
            android:paddingLeft="8dp"
            android:paddingRight="8dp"
            >
            <RadioButton
                android:id="@+id/radioM"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="left"
                android:checked="true"
                android:drawableRight="@drawable/male"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:textSize="14dp"
                android:text="Male"
            />
            <RadioButton
                android:id="@+id/radioF"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="right"
                android:checked="false"
                android:drawableRight="@drawable/female"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:textSize="14dp"
                android:text="Female"
            />
        </RadioGroup>
</RelativeLayout>