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Android

Posted by Travisse Hansen
Travisse Hansen
873 Points

setText method unavailable in Intellisense

I am working through the Building a Simple Android app >> Getting Started >> Adding an OnClickListener. The problem I am running into is that the setText method isn't available (doesn't come up through intellisense). I'm wondering if there is another extension or something that I haven't downloaded. In the video there are many types of setText methods but in mine there are none. I am a complete newbie so I apologize for simple questions but any help would be appreciated.

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Travisse,

Can you copy all your code from MainActivity.java and paste it in here in a reply? It looks like maybe an import statement or something is missing.

Travisse Hansen
Travisse Hansen
873 Points

Ben,

Thanks for your quick reply. The problem resolved itself tonight. I shut down Eclipse and when I opened it again it had a whole list of updates that needed to be installed. I don't know why they didn't install in the first place but it appears to have done the trick - the setText method showed up and worked just fine.

Thanks again for the help and for the teaching a great class. You guys have by far the best learn-to-code overall product that I've used thus far and I'm looking forward to learning lots more.

Travisse Hansen
Travisse Hansen
873 Points

Actually while looking more closely at this I may not have completed the code challenge and thus didn't have the line of code: Button getAnswerButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1); I'm honestly not sure because I forgot to save and had to go through the whole exercise again tonight. Anyways, just another option of what may have gone wrong.