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Android

Posted by Siddharth Saravanan
Siddharth Saravanan
1,208 Points

Unfortunately, Crystal ball has stopped. Please help.

When I start my app on the emulator, I get the message, "Unfortunately, Crystal ball has stopped". I have done everything correctly and I followed the instructions right. This is the line of code that logcat tells me is the problem

    final TextView answerLabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);

This line of code is in the mainactivity.java file. If anyone can help me solve this problem, it would be appreciated.

J Andrew Scott
J Andrew Scott
30,626 Points

Could you post the rest of the logcat error? It's hard to guess what the problem is without debugging info.

1 Answer

Tom Williams
Tom Williams
7,473 Points
Tom Williams
Tom Williams
7,473 Points

I would try this....

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

   private TextView mYourVariableName;

}

protected void onCreate(your arguments) {

    mYourVariableName = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);

}

It looks like the error being thrown is because either the final statement or it cant resolve the variable reference.

Siddharth Saravanan
Siddharth Saravanan
1,208 Points

Ok thx I tried it and it worked