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kelvin gwaruka
931 PointsI cant get my code to run. Has anyone passed this challenge?
Question: Next, we want to position the ImageView directly below the EditText. We do this using the layout_below attribute. Add this new attribute to the ImageView and set it equal to the ID of the EditText (use "@id/captionField").
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<EditText
android:id="@+id/captionField"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:hint="Enter a caption" />
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:src="@drawable/grumpy_cat"
android:layout_below="@+id/captionField"/>
</RelativeLayout>
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsThe problem is that you refer to the id using "@+id/" instead of "@id/" the "+" is only used when you are creating a new id, when referencing an existing id you don't include it.
So just drop it from your code like this:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<EditText
android:id="@+id/captionField"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:hint="Enter a caption" />
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:src="@drawable/grumpy_cat"
android:layout_below="@id/captionField"/>
</RelativeLayout>
And you will be able to pass onto task 3.
kelvin gwaruka
931 PointsAndren Cheers man. Just copied and pasted your code above and voila managed to complete the challenge. On to the next one.
andren
28,558 PointsGood to hear. Glad I could be of help, and good luck ahead.
kelvin gwaruka
931 Pointskelvin gwaruka
931 PointsThanks Andren, but after changing the Layout to
android:layout_below="@id/captionField"/>, I am now getting the error message,
Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing.
andren
28,558 Pointsandren
28,558 PointsThat's weird, I verified that the code I posted works for both of the tasks and it is based on the code from your answer, the only thing I changed was that I removed the "android:layout_alignParentLeft" since it was redundant after adding the Top alignment.
Try copy and pasting the code I posted and see if that lets you through the two tasks. The code checker for these challenges can sometimes be quite picky and buggy, so it might just be some strange bug that is causing an issue with your code.
In the worse case scenario you can just restart the challenge and do both tasks over again, it shouldn't take too long since you already know the answers now.