Why can't I set text to an Android TextView?

Question

I\'m having a problem with setting text to a TextView:

TextView android:editable = \"true\".

In my .java it seems like that this should wor

Answer 1

I was having a similar problem, however my program would crash when I tried to set the text. I was attempting to set the text value from within a class that extends AsyncTask, and that was what was causing the problem.

To resolve it, I moved my setText to the onPostExecute method

protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
    super.onPostExecute(result);

    TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.errorsToday);
    text.setText("new string value");
}