Question

I’m trying to simplify my code, but for some reasons the “setText” method is not available.

Here is the code which is currently working for me:

TextView textView = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.testId);
textView.setText("Test");

I’m trying to simply it to this code:

(TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.testId).setText("Test");

But I’m getting the error message: “Cannot find symbol”.
Even IDE does not give me this option:

However, this code is working fine for some other things, like this:

view.findViewById(R.id.another_testID).setOnClickListener(test_listener);

Any ideas?

Answer 1

For a one liner:

((TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.testId)).setText("Test");

Note the extra brackets added.