Question

I have Tab Layout that contains a TextView. I’d like to assign some text at runtime to the TextView. I thought this would work:

    ((TextView)getParent().findViewById(R.id.status)).setText("Some Text");

but the text is never set.

This is my layout:

<LinearLayout
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:padding="0dp"

    <TabWidget
        android:id="@android:id/tabs"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:padding="0dp"
        android:background="@drawable/tab_bg_selector" 
     />           
     <FrameLayout
        android:id="@android:id/tabcontent"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:padding="0dp" 
     />
        <TextView 
    android:id="@+id/status"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:text="Last Updated"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:background="#cccccc"
/>         
</LinearLayout>
 <RelativeLayout
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="10dp"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">        
<TextView 
    android:id="@+id/status"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="#cccccc"
    />
 </RelativeLayout>
</TabHost>

Answer 1

try this:

((TextView)this.findViewById(R.id.status)).setText("Some Text");