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Android

Posted by Gary Mclean
Gary Mclean
5,756 Points

answerLable symbol can not be found

hey,

im having an issue with the answerLabel in the crystal ball videos. in the video it says put final at the public void part however, that dosent work for me i still get an error saying can not find symbol. any help would be great

thanks,

P.s i cant use eclipse (long story) and im using Android Studio

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@Override final public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

 //Declare the view variables, assigns them to the layout file
    TextView answervariable = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
    Button getAnswerButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);

    getAnswerButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View arg0) {
            //Button was clicked so update the answer label by providing a new answer
            String answer = "Yes!";
               answerLabel.setText(answer);
        }
    });

***)

1 Answer

Abdalla Ali
Abdalla Ali
2,972 Points

Hi Gary,

By looking at the code snippet, i see that you've declared TextView variable answervariable and you are not using it inside onClickListener, instead you are using answerLabel which you didn't declare it at all, maybe that's the reason it's showing you "answerLable symbol can not be found"

Instead of doing it like this

answerLabel.setText(answer);

You can replace with the following code:

answervariable.setText(answer);

Hope this helps. Abdalla.

Gary Mclean
Gary Mclean
5,756 Points

Ah yeah thanks that sorted it :)