Radio Times, Radio Measures.

There are times when you find yourself in a state where things are out of control just like a RadioButton.

Weird behaviours crop out while you try to add a radio button to your layout dynamically or inflated from layout.

Some times the button's drawables doesn't appear at all, sometimes it appears unexpected. 

So for such a scenario, there is a cure in few steps as follows:

1. Try to use AppCompatRadioButton from support library. Set a custom style to it which extends from "@android:style/Widget.Holo.CompoundButton.RadioButton"

<style name="RadioButtonStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.CompoundButton.RadioButton">
        <item name="buttonTint">@color/coke_red</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/dialog_common_transaction_item_details_text_view</item>
        <item name="android:typeface">normal</item>
        <item name="android:button">@drawable/custom_radio_selector</item>
</style>

2. Add two image drawables, one for checked and other for unchecked state.

3. Create a custom drawable selector "custom_radio_selector.xml"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:state_checked="true" android:state_window_focused="false"

        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_radio_on" />

    <item android:state_checked="false" android:state_window_focused="false"

        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_radio_off" />


    <item android:state_checked="true" android:state_pressed="true"

        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_radio_on" />

    <item android:state_checked="false" android:state_pressed="true"

        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_radio_off" />


    <item android:state_checked="true" android:state_focused="true"

        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_radio_on" />

    <item android:state_checked="false" android:state_focused="true"

        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_radio_off" />


    <item android:state_checked="false" android:drawable="@drawable/ic_radio_off" />

    <item android:state_checked="true" android:drawable="@drawable/ic_radio_on" />

</selector>

where ic_radio_off.png and ic_radio_on.png are the image drawbles added as required.

Demo: