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How do I compare strings in Java?

im new to android and this is my first post in StackOverflow.In short I face a very strange problem :
in some methods I used if(…) ,and both of the values were equal ,yet it doesn’t go through the if .
Here is an example :

String []s=db.getStudentsNames();
        String []t=CopyNames(s);
        String t1,t2;

        t2=Id.getText().toString();
        for(int i=0;i<s.length;i++)
        {
            t1=t[i].substring(t[i].indexOf("-")+1).toString();
            Notifications(t[i].substring(t[i].indexOf("-")+1).toString());
            if(t1.toString()==t2.toString())//Problem!
            {
                Notifications("Id already exists for "+t[i].substring(0,t[i].indexOf("-")).toString());
                return false;
            }
        } 

The variables t1 & t2 are : t1="123456789" & t2="123456789" , yet it doesn’t enter the if like they are not equal.
And there are other places were two equal sides are considered as not equal – in the same java page (activity) like:
if(add.getText().toString()=="Add Student") : add refers to a button which has ,by default , a text :”Add Student”
so how can I solve this problem ?

**when this problem started , I started to see in LogCat:

 W/KeyCharacterMap(282): No keyboard for id 0

 W/KeyCharacterMap(282): Using default keymap: /system/usr/keychars/qwerty.kcm.bin

 D/dalvikvm(282): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 5438 objects / 256800 bytes in 73ms

Answer 1

You shouldn’t use == to compare Strings in Java. Use t1.toString().equals(t2.toString()) instead.