Question

I’m trying to implement a .java splash screen in my Monodroid app in Visual Studio, anyway I want the splash screen to get it’s content view from a resouces layout. I’m trying to get it like this:

setContentView(R.layout.AppSplash);

Also tried with:

setContentView(Resource.layout.AppSplash);

And also:

setContentView("@layout/AppSplash");

And I get error messages like this:

package R does not exist

Where R changes for Resources or:

cannot find symbol
symbol  : method setContentView(java.lang.String)
location: class SwimmerTimesCalc.SplashActivity
    setContentView("@layout/AppSplash");

When I try the @layout/AppSplash option

How can I access the Monodroid resources to set the layout of my Splash Screen?

Answer 1

I figured out how to access the resources, since the debugger couldnt access the resources I went to the generated resources file that is in the project folder under \obj[This can be debug or release]\android\src and it’s called R. While browsing that file I found the layout I was trying to use like this:

public static final int appsplash1=0x7f030002;

I took the resource value from there that is 0x7f030002 and used it like this:

setContentView(0x7f030002);

Anyway as the resources file is autogenerated, adding another layout that goes alphabetically before this may require to do this proccess again.