Question

I’m trying to figure out how to capture data from a form using EditText & Spinner’s and insert it into a SQLite database. I am able to write the hard coded attributes but when I try to use R.id.fieldName it throws an error due to being an Integer vice a String.

public class PetAdd extends Activity {
DBAdapter db = new DBAdapter(this);
private OnClickListener btnPetAddListener = new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View arg0) {
        db.open();
        long id;
        id = db.insertPet("name", "type", "breed", "sex", "notes");
         /**id = db.insertPet(R.id.petName, R.id.SpinnerPetType, R.id.petBreed, R.id.SpinnerPetGender, R.id.EditTextPetAddOptions);*/
        db.close();
    }
};

I’m still trying to learn all this stuff and my brain is fried from looking at a plethora of online tutorials, examples and Google documentation. If anyone can show me how to do this or direct me to a barney style tutorial that breaks it down for me to understand what’s going on, it’d be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

R.id.fieldName is a numeric reference to the item in your Activity (provided it’s part of your layout).

You’ll need to call findViewById(R.id.fieldName) to get a refererene to it. You’ll also need to cast it to the correct type of view (in your case EditText) and then call getText().toString() on the whole thing.

Putting it all together…

EditText myField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.userName); //assuming you have a field named userName in your XML

String userNameValue = myField.getText().toString();

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