Question

Any ideas where the underlying word “null” may be coming from? This only appears on certain devices, most devices I’ve tested do not have this underlying word. Below is a partial screen shot showing the issue with the word “null” in my layout:

EDITED: Here is the xml:

        <TextView 
        android:id="@+id/day"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:text="DAY: "
        style="@style/ForecastLayout.Detail.DayTextSizeBold"/>

and the code that populates it:

TextView dayTitle_tv = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.day);

buf = mContext.getApplicationContext().getResources().getString(R.string.day).toUpperCase();

            dayTitle_tv.setText(buf + ":"); 

I do the same thing for the titles seen at the bottom of the screen image I uploaded:

// headings
            // precip
            tv = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.precip_title);
            tv.setText(mContext.getApplicationContext().getResources().getString(R.string.precip).toUpperCase());

            // day
            tv = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.day_title);
            tv.setText(mContext.getApplicationContext().getResources().getString(R.string.day).toUpperCase());

            // night
            tv = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.night_title);
            tv.setText(mContext.getApplicationContext().getResources().getString(R.string.night).toUpperCase());

and I do not get the “null” underlying. Hmmm?

Answer 1

I needed initialize my variable to something other than “null”. I didn’t see that another developer had initialized this variable to “null”. I changed this to an empty string and the problem is solved!