Can't resolve symbol 'setText' error

Question

like the title says I\'m getting an error when trying to set a text view text from java in my android project, I can\'t see why.

    package com.codeherenow.         


        

Answer 1

You've got a couple issues.

First, you can't do this here

public TextView YT = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.Years);

Because the layout hasn't been inflated yet so you can't look for your View witht findViewById(). You can declare it there

public TextView YT;

but you need to initialize it after you call setContentVie()

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.sicalculator);

    //can't do it before that line ^
    YT = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.Years);
}

And you are trying to call setText() outside of a method. Move that to some method. But you can't do it in onCreate() because Years isn't given a value. So you probably want it somewhere else. Maybe in onProgressChanged().

Also, to follow Java naming conventions, you should name your variables by starting with lower case (yt or yT and years).