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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Basic Android Programming Accessing Views in Code

Posted by Emmancipate Musemwa
Emmancipate Musemwa
291 Points

My data types are in Red

I am following android app development tutorial, everything is working fine so far. The problem is in java, my data types are in red and the import statements are different from the ones shown in the tutorial '''package nf.co.emancode.funfacts;

import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuItem;

public class FunFactsActivity extends Activity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_fun_facts);

    //Declare our View variables
    TextView factLabel;
    Button showFactButton;
} '''

TextView and Button are in red

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

you will need to import the TextView and Button classes manually. add the following to your list of import statements at the top of your file:

import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;

Whenever you type out a class name, be sure and choose it from autocomplete. When you choose the class from autocomplete, it automatically gets imported. In your case you chose to just type it out fully, and doing so caused the class to not get imported automatically.

Emmancipate Musemwa
Emmancipate Musemwa
291 Points

Thanks a lot it worked