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Alex Ziv
1,384 PointsAndroid Studio is telling me it cannot resolve method setText(java.lang.String). What have I done wrong?
Every thing else is according to the code showed in the video.
3 Answers
Zachary Green
16,359 PointsIs the object your using set text on a string and not some other object
Ben Junya
12,365 PointsCan you paste your code? Please show the entire method where you're having the problem.
Ryan Farber
5,329 PointsYou probably need to watch out on what needs to be capitalized and what shouldn't be capitalized
setText() != (does not equal) SetText() for example
Ben Junya
12,365 PointsBen Junya
12,365 PointsWe need to know more about your problem before we can help you answer it.
From what I'm inferring from the lesson, did you declare your TextView object?
somewhere in there, there should be:
TextView textview;
textview = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview); // or whatever ID has been placed on that textview
textview.setText("This is a string");
That should resolve, unless you're working from a fragment, which it should be:
textview = (TextView) getView().findViewById(R.id.textview);