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caveman
caveman

Reputation: 444

How can I dynamically update widget text using "latest" best Kotlin Android pratcices?

I created a new Kotlin project in the latest version of Android Studio, using the empty activity project template, which only contains a TextView with "Hello, World!" in its main layout. Then:

  1. I enabled viewBinding in the module build.gradle.
  2. Defined binding in MainActivity.kt (as shown in the last listing).
  3. Gave that TextView an identifier txt_hello as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<...>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtHello"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Hello World!"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

</...>

Then I went on to MainActivity.kt file to define some code that modifies the text attribute of the txt_hellow TextView widget as follows:

package com.example.myapplication

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle

// I added this:
import com.example.myapplication.databinding.ActivityMainBinding

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    private lateinit var binding: ActivityMainBinding

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        // I removed this:
        // setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        // I added this:
        binding = ActivityMainBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
        setContentView(binding.root)
        binding.txtHello.setOnClickListener {
            binding.txtHello.setText("lel")
        }
    }
}

But, I get the following error:

String literal in setText can not be translated. Use Android resources instead.

How can I update widgets using the viewBinding approach?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 531

Answers (2)

galihif
galihif

Reputation: 444

First I think that's a warning that you shouldn't use a hardcoded string in the text view, because it's a bad practice and cannot be translated.

So you have to create some string values in your strings.xml, for example:

<string name="text_hello">Hello</string>

And use that string value like this

binding.txtHello.text = getText(R.string.text_hello)

Upvotes: 2

Gabe Sechan
Gabe Sechan

Reputation: 93599

That error is because you can't use binding.txtHello.text = "lel" The reason for this is that there are two definitions of setText- one for a string and one for an int (a text resource). This means the code that converts setters from Java to Kotlin doesn't know which to call when you try to assign to the text variable, so it throws this error. Instead, use binding.txtHell.setText("lel"). You need to do this whenever there are multiple functions named setXXX for a given XXX written in Java.

Upvotes: 1

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