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Android

Hassan Osman
Hassan Osman
628 Points
Posted by Hassan Osman
Hassan Osman
628 Points

textview factlabel = findViewById(R.Id.facttextview);

button showfactbutton; }

Karim Vally
Karim Vally
646 Points

What are you trying to achieve?

2 Answers

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points
James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

You need to cast your result from findViewById() to be the same as what you are trying to put it in. findViewById() returns a View which cannot be stored in a TextView variable. You cast a value by putting the new class in parenthesis before what you are casting. So you want it to look like

TextView factlabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.Id.facttextview);

If you have any more questions feel free to ask.

Amish Garg
Amish Garg
976 Points
Amish Garg
Amish Garg
976 Points

Hi hassan,

You are having a caps mistake in your code, and that code will never work. Type it this way : - 

TextView factlabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.factTextView); 

Button showFactButton;

letters are case sensitive in android programming. So take care that you type the upper case letters in upper case. Always follow the code in videos exactly.

I hope your problem get solved, let me know that.