TextView.setText(int resid)

Question

Lets say I want a textview to display 5.

I assume I can use TextView.setText(5).

But in the above case, the compiler would be looking for a resource id 5 and not the integer 5.

What should I do if I really want to display the "integer" ?.

possible duplicate of [Integer value in TextView](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3994315/integer-value-in-textview) — laalto, Sep 26 '13 at 09:55

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 09:53

5

TextView.setText(Integer.toString(5))

convert to string

answered Sep 26 '13 at 09:53

Yashwanth Kumar

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 09:53

2

You need to cast it to String (now compiler won't it interpret as resource):

TextView.setText(5 + "").
TextView.setText(String.valueOf(5));
TextView.setText(Integer.toString(5));

answered Sep 26 '13 at 09:53

Simon Dorociak

useless string concatenation ... String.valueOf(5) would be better ... no offense! – gunar Sep 26 '13 at 09:55
@gunar you right i already added another possible approaches. – Simon Dorociak Sep 26 '13 at 09:56

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 09:54

1

TextView.setText(new Integer(5).toString());

answered Sep 26 '13 at 09:54

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 10:05

1

Well, you actually have 5 (five) choices, but the first 2 are the most common.

setText

1) txtTextView.setText(String.valueOf(5)) // or Integers's equivalent

2) textTextView.setText(R.string.value_of_5) // this would be an int value declared in strings.xml

answered Sep 26 '13 at 10:05

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