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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) User Input Getting Text from an EditText

Posted by Aj Velez-Camacho
Aj Velez-Camacho
966 Points

can't start the app because "cannot resolve symbol NameEditText" mNameField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.nameEditTex

package me.mars;

import android.app.Activity; import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuItem; import android.view.View; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.EditText; import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private EditText mNameField;
private Button mStartButton;

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

    mNameField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.nameEditText);
    mStartButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.startButton );

    mStartButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View v) {
            String name = mNameField.getText().toString();
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, name, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    });

}

}

Vrezh Gulyan
Vrezh Gulyan
11,161 Points
Vrezh Gulyan
Vrezh Gulyan
11,161 Points

I had the same problem as you and I figured it out! instead of actually typing out the word Button and EditText just start typing them and then click on Button for autocompletion. Next to that option it'll say android widget. Weird that it makes a difference but that'll solve your problem.

2 Answers

Andrei Fecioru
Andrei Fecioru
15,059 Points

Hi,

Somewhere in one of your application's layout resources (those XML files that describe your UI) you must define an EditText control and set it's id attribute to nameEditText. Something like:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/nameEditText"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" />

Hope this helps.

John Miller
John Miller
4,007 Points
John Miller
John Miller
4,007 Points

Thanks Andrei, but this seems like a bug in Android Studio