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Liath
Liath

Reputation: 10191

Android Elements not displaying

I'm working through the MyFirstApp tutorial on http://developer.android.com using the latest SDKs.

I've created a 4.1 app and set up my emulator with LCD density of 213, a VM application heap of 48 and a device RAM size of 512. The resolution is 720x1280.

When I first got this I had "Android" flash up on the emulator.

I noticed that my layout main.xml had not been created by default so I added it myself in res/layouts

I added the following main.xml and strings.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >
    <EditText android:id="@+id/edit_message"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:hint="@string/edit_message" />
    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/button_send" />
</LinearLayout>



<resources>
    <string name="app_name">My First App</string>
    <string name="edit_message">Enter a message</string>
    <string name="button_send">Send</string>
</resources>

Now when I run my emulator I just get a black screen. My guess is that either I've not added main.xml correctly or there's something wrong in my xml file.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 155

Answers (1)

Siddharth Lele
Siddharth Lele

Reputation: 27748

Map your XML file (main.xml) to your Activity by using the following statemetn in your Activity's onCreate() method:

setContentView(R.layout.main);

Upvotes: 2

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