Draw charts in application using AChartEngine

This code helps to draw a chart in your application using 'AChartEngine' charting library. There are various other charting libaray in Android like:

1. ChartDroid
2. Android Plot
3. rapidAndroid
4. GraphView
5. Java Charts for Android
6. AChartEngine

But here we will go with AChartEngine, AChartEngine supports the following chart types:

• lineChart
• Area Chart
• Scatter Chart
• Time Chart
• Bar Chart
• Pie Chart
• Bubble Chart
• Doughnut Chart
• Range (high-low) bar chart
• dial chart / gauge
• combined ( any combinatiob of line, cubic line, scatter, bar, range bar, bubble ) chart
• cubic line chart

Follow the steps mentioned below for Importing that library into your project:

1. First download that library from the above link.
2. Now create a folder named "libs" in your project and copy paste the achartengine.jar file inside the libs folder.
3. Now Right click on the project name -> Properties -> Java Build Path -> Under Libraries tab -> Add Jar -> click on your project name -> libs -> achartengine.jar -> OK
4. Now you have successfully Imported achartengine.jar file into the application.
5. Now write the below code in java class:

Here I have created a file (source file) named aChartExample

public class aChart_Example {

private GraphicalView mChartView2;

private GraphicalView mChartView3;

static int count=5;

int[] Mycolors = new int[] { Color.RED, Color.DKGRAY, Color.BLUE, Color.parseColor("#800080"),Color.parseColor("#008000"),Color.GRAY };

public Intent execute(Context context,RelativeLayout parent) {

int[] colors = new int[count];

for(int i=0;i<count;i++)

{

colors[i]=Mycolors[i];

}

DefaultRenderer renderer = buildCategoryRenderer(colors);

 renderer.setPanEnabled(false);// Disable User Interaction

 renderer.setLabelsColor(Color.BLACK);

 renderer.setShowLabels(true);

 

 //renderer.setChartTitle("Total Assets");

 renderer.setLabelsTextSize(12);

CategorySeries categorySeries = new CategorySeries("Pets");

categorySeries.add("Dogs", 5);

categorySeries.add("Cats", 6);

categorySeries.add("Birds", 8);

categorySeries.add("Fish", 23);

categorySeries.add("Other Pets", 40);

mChartView2=ChartFactory.getPieChartView(context, categorySeries,renderer);

parent.addView(mChartView2);

return ChartFactory.getPieChartIntent(context, categorySeries, renderer,null);

}

protected DefaultRenderer buildCategoryRenderer(int[] colors) {

DefaultRenderer renderer = new DefaultRenderer();

for (int color : colors) {

SimpleSeriesRenderer r = new SimpleSeriesRenderer();

r.setColor(color);

renderer.addSeriesRenderer(r);

}

return renderer;

}

}

And please refer the activity main class as:

public class MyAppActivity extends Activity {

RelativeLayout LayoutToDisplayChart;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        LayoutToDisplayChart=(RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.relative_layout1);

        Intent achartIntent = new aChart_Example().execute(MyAppActivity.this,LayoutToDisplayChart);

    }

}

The Output of the above code is :