Good morning, I was wondering if anyone can help me learn how to hardcode text in a layout screen. When I add a text field, it remains to be edible in my app. Also I am getting a error that it "should be an @string resource", but not sure how to do it. If possible to learn with the graphical layout would be great. Thanks in advance, Howard

I hate Android Layouts. A Text field will always be editable; it's a text field. If you don't want them to edit it, then you either disable it in code, or use a 'Label' instead. If you provide text, it wants you to add it to the 'strings.xml' file, and reference it from there. That 'can' be done, but if they're warnings and not errors, you can ignore them. The proper format for a 'hard coded' string in Android would be something like: android:text="Email" And if you want to avoid those errors altogether, remove it from the xml and do it in code. Cheers! -- Smug

Hi Smug, thanks for the reply. For your first suggestions, either disable it or use a label how would I go about disabling it? Also, I thought I would be able to add a label like a text field in the graphical view but I was not able to see how I would do that. Thanks again, Howard

@hashner13, Code it in the xml then declare it in the corresponding java class. Make sense? LA

@LA....Sadly no. I know basically no code. Sorry, H-

Something like this in your xml: <TextView android:id="@+id/myText" </TextView> Then on that same screen for java: Before onCreate do this: TextView myText; The after onCreate do this: //get references to TextView myText = (TextView)thisScreensView.findViewById(R.id.myText); Any better? LA

A little better! And in no way would I have know to code that! :-) thanks, but I will have to try it tomorrow and will keep you posted. Just looking at it, where would I input the text that I want it to show? Thanks, H-

That would depend if you are connecting the text with a control panel then you would you a string but if you are just coding then I use the interface builder on the xml for that but to hard code it: <TextView android:text="Put your text here:" </TextView> Then give it an id like about in either textview or EditText in java LA

Okay, so with @LA and @smug instructions along with a little searching on the web, this is what I did on the xml file and seem to work for the most part. <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_above="@+id/qrButton" android:text="@string/Cr_text" android:textSize="30sp" /> Learned a little in the process such as reference text strings and adjusting size. Small and simple but a large step for me! :-) The only thing I can't do is to center the text. I thought I saw it prior but can't now. Any suggestions. Thanks again, Howard

I thought I could add: android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" but it is not centering it.

Awesome @hashner! You are getting it! LA

Thanks, but I still get it centered.

You got it centered? LA

Sorry, I just saw my last response made no sense. It has been a long day. No I have not been able to get it centered yet. H-

This should do it: android:gravity="center" LA

Yes, that did. Thank you so much, H-

Awesome! You are welcome friend! LA