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

In your XML, you had used Textview, But in Java Code you had used EditText instead of TextView. If you change it into TextView you can set Text to to your TextView Object.

text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.this_is_the_id_of_textview);
text.setText("TEST");

hope it will work.

Answer 2

In your java class, set the "EditText" Type to "TextView". Because you have declared a TextView in the layout.xml file

Answer 3

The code should instead be something like this:

TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.this_is_the_id_of_textview);
text.setText("test");

Answer 4

You set the text to a field that was rendered in another instance of your activity residing in cash,say when it was landscape oriented. Then it was recreated due to some reason. You need to set the text in an unusual way by saving the string to SharedPreferences and force relaunch the activity using recreate(), say for mOutputText:

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    String sLcl=mPreferences.getString("response","");
    if(!sLcl.isEmpty()){
        mOutputText.setText(sLcl);
        mPreferences.edit().putString("response","").commit();
    }
}

private void changeText() {
    mPreferences.edit().putString("response",responseText).commit();
    recreate();
}
@Override
protected void onActivityResult(
        int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    switch (requestCode) {
        case CAPTURE_MEDIA_RESULT_CODE:
            if (null == data || null == data.getData()) {
               showMessage("Sorry. You didn't save any video");
            } else {
                videoUri = data.getData();
                mProgress = new ProgressDialog(this);
                mProgress.setMessage("Uploading onYoutube ...");

                authorizeIt();// SAY YOU CALL THE changeText() at the end of this method
            }
            break;
    }
}

Answer 5

Try Like this :

TextView text=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textviewID);
text.setText("Text");

Instead of this:

text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.this_is_the_id_of_textview);
text.setText("TEST");

Answer 6

Or you can do this way :

((TextView)findViewById(R.id.this_is_the_id_of_textview)).setText("Test");