Question

I am using different layouts to show different styled titles in my application. The problem is that I can’t get a reference to a specific Textview that exists in all of them. If I change the text, nothing happens.

Here is what I am doing:

getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.title_bar);

The following method does not work:

public void setTitle(String text) {
    TextView txtTitle = (TextView) this.findViewById(R.id.txtTitle);
    if(txtTitle !=null) {
        txtTitleMoney.setText(text);
        Log.d("debug", "not null");
    } 
}

I get no error so I think I’m accessing the wrong view.

Hopefully someone can help me 🙂

Answer 1

if you set the same id (“txtTitle“) to the TextView items in all of your different title layouts, then your code should work.
also make sure you call setTitle() after setContentView().