How to display the value of a variable on the screen?

Question

I know this is very basic question, but I need to know, how I can display the contents of a variable on the screen.

Do I use a textview in my layout?

I have

Answer 1

In addition, if you want to concatenate a string and a variable, you can use the "+" operator as you would do in System.out.print

Answer 2

If you have a TextView named textViewName defined in your layout XML file, you can just do something like this in your Activity class:

setContentView(R.layout.layoutName);
TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textViewName);
textView.setText("text you want to display");

Is this what you're looking for? If you don't need to display it to the screen, and just want to debug, just use Log() and logcat to view the messages.

Answer 3

If you have a list on the screen , then to not lose the list and still show change use , taking @Matt's example.

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textViewName);
textView.setText("text you want to display");

It worked for me.

Answer 4

int count=7;
     TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.my_text_view);
tv.setText("you have entered"+count+"as the integer");

As you can see,you can include other data types like integers also in the setText block

Answer 5

In the Activity...

  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
  {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    int myValue = deriveMyValue();
    String message =
        myValue == -1 ?
            "The value is invalid." :
            "The value is " + myValue;
    TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.my_text_view);
    tv.setText(message);
  }