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Alexander Eddy
566 PointsMy padding isn't being correctly applied. Also, my Did You Know? id doesn't appear to be working correctly either!
Hello friends,
I just completed the Setting Padding video, and attempted to set the padding on my Fun Facts assignment app. The padding didn't appear to work in the app previewer, and when I attempted to run the app, I got the following error message: Error:(17, 21) Resource id cannot be an empty string (at 'id' with value '@didyouknow/').
Thanks in advance for your help!
Kate Hoferkamp
5,205 PointsThe error you are getting says that the string didyouknow is empty, which it cannot be. There must be a value in there. Can you show your strings.xml?
5 Answers
Kate Hoferkamp
5,205 PointsOkay, one of your first problems, I believe, it that you are referencing didyouknow, instead of didYouKnow which is what you used in strings.xml. Can you check that first?
Alexander Eddy
566 PointsIt sounds like I've got two separate problems here. Here's the strings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources>
<string name="app_name">Fun Facts</string>
<string name="didYouKnow">Did you know?</string>
<string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
</resources>
And here is dimens.xml
<resources> <!-- Default screen margins, per the Android Design guidelines. --> <dimen name="activity_horizontal_margin">50dp</dimen> <dimen name="activity_vertical_margin">50dp</dimen> </resources>
Alexander Eddy
566 PointsI think everything sorted itself out, looks like Android Studio just wanted a reboot and a chance to be introspective. It got that out of its system and is working fine now.
Thanks for the help!
Kate Hoferkamp
5,205 PointsYay! Glad you got it working.
felixobrien
961 PointsMy Padding isn't working even though I have all the right code in the padding area. I also have a problem where the app doesn't appear in my emulator and gives me this error: pkg: /data/local/tmp/Felix_Developing.funfacts Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED]
felixobrien
961 PointsReboot fixed it!
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsAurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsNot sure but since the id cannot be empty string, maybe something is wrong with your string and the label with ur padding and when you try to apply it?