Question

Here is the scope. I am trying to create a base class you will be subclassing and running into some snags. I want to create a method that returns a view so it can be overridden by any of its subclasses such as ListView, GridView, TextView, etc. Not sure if that is even possible or if I am going about it the wrong way, but here is the code below.

This is the base view method in my class:

    View backViewController()
{
    return null;
}

Here is the subclass:

@Override
    View backViewController()
{
    MenuList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.backView);
    return MenuList;
}

With MenuList being a ListView I created in the subclass and trying to use in place of the base View. The error I am receiving is “The return type is incompatible”.

Answer 1

Is R.id.backView a ListView in the xml layout ?