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Android

Donovan Brown
Donovan Brown
571 Points
Posted by Donovan Brown
Donovan Brown
571 Points

MealActivity

I'm getting an error when trying to change to background color to green. Please help.

import android.os.Bundle; import android.widget.TextView;

public class MealActivity extends Activity {

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

    TextView foodLabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.foodTextView);
    TextView drinkLabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.drinkTextView);
    RelativeLayout mealLayout = (RelativeLayout)  findViewById(R.id.mealLayout);
    relativeLayout.setBackgroundColor(color.GREEN);
}

}

1 Answer

Kristen Law
Kristen Law
16,244 Points

It looks like you're trying to call setBackgroundColor on a variable called relativeLayout. Did you mean to call that on your RelativeLayout named mealLayout? Or do you have another RelativeLayout named relativeLayout? Also, I believe the color needs to be capitalized since you're calling the GREEN static constant in the Color class.

See if the following changes work for you:

RelativeLayout mealLayout = (RelativeLayout)  findViewById(R.id.mealLayout);
mealLayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);