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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Creating the Screen Layout Editing a Layout File

Posted by Anthony Tran
Anthony Tran
Courses Plus Student 4,821 Points

Any websites/documents that can aid me with the use of Android 1.4, @string text doesn't appear

I wanted to know if there was any additional material, in the form of website/documents/video channel;YouTube, that can aid me in understanding the new updates available for this version of Android Studios

Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher

Could you elaborate you mean by "@string text doesn't appear"?

1 Answer

Fernando Hernandez
Fernando Hernandez
11,013 Points
Fernando Hernandez
Fernando Hernandez
11,013 Points

I believe Anthony may be referring to the fact that Android Studio 1.4+ now defaults (on mine at least) the "Hello World" text to be hard coded to "Hello World!" instead of using a reference pointer to strings.xml values.

This is the default content of my strings.xml for the new project.

<resources>
    <string name="app_name">Fun Facts</string>
    <string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
</resources>

while the text box content is simply "Hello World!" in my res/layout/content_fun_facts.xml file.

For this video, it's simply removed and hard coded to the way Android Studio 1.4 defaults to anyway so it shouldn't matter too much at this point.

But it can be confusing now that there are 2 xml files instead of 1 (activity.xml/content.xml), and it defaults to hard coding the text value.