Learn to create a Pie Chart in Android with MPAndroidChart

In the serie exploring MPAndroidChart, today you’re going to learn how to create a pie chart in Android. A Youtube demo video how you steps by steps how to create a pie chart in Android with MPAndroidChart :

Note that MPAndroidChart is open source and available here on Github : https://github.com/PhilJay/MPAndroidChart . Source code for MainActivity is the following :

package com.ssaurel.piechartmp;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import com.github.mikephil.charting.charts.PieChart;
import com.github.mikephil.charting.components.Legend;
import com.github.mikephil.charting.components.Legend.LegendPosition;
import com.github.mikephil.charting.data.Entry;
import com.github.mikephil.charting.data.PieData;
import com.github.mikephil.charting.data.PieDataSet;
import com.github.mikephil.charting.listener.OnChartValueSelectedListener;
import com.github.mikephil.charting.utils.ColorTemplate;
import com.github.mikephil.charting.utils.Highlight;
import com.github.mikephil.charting.utils.PercentFormatter;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

  private RelativeLayout mainLayout;
  private PieChart mChart;
  // we're going to display pie chart for smartphones martket shares
  private float[] yData = { 5, 10, 15, 30, 40 };
  private String[] xData = { "Sony", "Huawei", "LG", "Apple", "Samsung" };

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    mainLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.mainLayout);
    mChart = new PieChart(this);
    // add pie chart to main layout
    mainLayout.addView(mChart);
    mainLayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#55656C"));

    // configure pie chart
    mChart.setUsePercentValues(true);
    mChart.setDescription("Smartphones Market Share");

    // enable hole and configure
    mChart.setDrawHoleEnabled(true);
    mChart.setHoleColorTransparent(true);
    mChart.setHoleRadius(7);
    mChart.setTransparentCircleRadius(10);

    // enable rotation of the chart by touch
    mChart.setRotationAngle(0);
    mChart.setRotationEnabled(true);

    // set a chart value selected listener
    mChart.setOnChartValueSelectedListener(new OnChartValueSelectedListener() {

      @Override
      public void onValueSelected(Entry e, int dataSetIndex, Highlight h) {
        // display msg when value selected
        if (e == null)
          return;

        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,
          xData[e.getXIndex()] + " = " + e.getVal() + "%", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
      }

      @Override
      public void onNothingSelected() {

      }
    });

    // add data
    addData();

    // customize legends
    Legend l = mChart.getLegend();
    l.setPosition(LegendPosition.RIGHT_OF_CHART);
    l.setXEntrySpace(7);
    l.setYEntrySpace(5);
  }

  private void addData() {
    ArrayList<Entry> yVals1 = new ArrayList<Entry>();

    for (int i = 0; i < yData.length; i++)
      yVals1.add(new Entry(yData[i], i));

    ArrayList<String> xVals = new ArrayList<String>();

    for (int i = 0; i < xData.length; i++)
      xVals.add(xData[i]);

    // create pie data set
    PieDataSet dataSet = new PieDataSet(yVals1, "Market Share");
    dataSet.setSliceSpace(3);
    dataSet.setSelectionShift(5);

    // add many colors
    ArrayList<Integer> colors = new ArrayList<Integer>();

    for (int c : ColorTemplate.VORDIPLOM_COLORS)
      colors.add(c);

    for (int c : ColorTemplate.JOYFUL_COLORS)
      colors.add(c);

    for (int c : ColorTemplate.COLORFUL_COLORS)
      colors.add(c);

    for (int c : ColorTemplate.LIBERTY_COLORS)
      colors.add(c);

    for (int c : ColorTemplate.PASTEL_COLORS)
      colors.add(c);

    colors.add(ColorTemplate.getHoloBlue());
    dataSet.setColors(colors);

    // instantiate pie data object now
    PieData data = new PieData(xVals, dataSet);
    data.setValueFormatter(new PercentFormatter());
    data.setValueTextSize(11f);
    data.setValueTextColor(Color.GRAY);

    mChart.setData(data);

    // undo all highlights
    mChart.highlightValues(null);

    // update pie chart
    mChart.invalidate();
  }

}