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Android

Posted by adsdev
adsdev
15,583 Points

Android studio is giving me a bad time

Hello. Everytime i start an android project in Android studio, and I go work on it. I find out no R.Java file is created and when in the normal code it is referencing to it. At least this is the impression i get. Also when i put in an ID in like a textView android:id ="@+id/" it gives me a missing resource error. I really don't know what to do :/

Sanat Tripathi
Sanat Tripathi
8,109 Points

So you are saying that even if you add a name like this: "@+id/element_name", in your layout file, you still get an error?

2 Answers

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

The R.java file is automatically created when you build your project and you should never really have reason to mess with it. As for the resource id error, you cannot give an id that is blank, which is what you are trying to do with just "@+id/", you need to give it a full name like "@+id/someUniqueName".

adsdev
adsdev
15,583 Points
adsdev
adsdev
15,583 Points

@Sanat, yep. But i had to change some things in Android studio itself. It probably was a common problem. few things i had to do was clean and rebuild my project. Thanks for your time thuogh :), u 2 james ^^