Question

When I create a new android project (following these steps: http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/creating-project.html) I automatically get syntax errors and I don’t get it. I have attached a photo of the problem. Please help. I downloaded everything I needed to and in the older versions of this, everything worked fine.

Answer 1

You are importing the wrong R. You should be doing

import com.chatnexttofriends.R;

instead of

import com.android.R;

This could have happened if you used the Organize Imports option before the automatically generated files where created, or because there was an error in your resources that prevented the automatically generated files from being created.

If you intend to use resources from both Rs, then you will have to fully qualify one of them. I would suggest qualifying Android’s R. I.e.:

setContentView(android.R.layout.activity_list_item);

Although I doubt you want to set the content of your Activity to that of an item representing an Activity in a ListView.