Error: constant string too long

Asked Jun 11 '14 at 22:35

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et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
et.setText("massive wall of text goes here")

This gives an error: constant string too long. Any ways to fix this? I could divide the wall of text and have more than one edittexts but this could mess up with my code. Any ways besides this? Thanks a lot

asked Jun 11 '14 at 22:35

Giannis Thanasiou

you could try to divide text in multi line in the code... but why you need a so long text? can't you put this text in another place? – Marco Acierno Jun 11 '14 at 22:39
can you show your xml. All i want to see is that your layout_width is wrap_content. – android_Muncher Jun 11 '14 at 22:45
– Giannis Thanasiou Jun 11 '14 at 22:52
Might want to try using a StringBuffer instead. I don't think that your error is with the Android EditText as such, but more with the Java String class. – biddulph.r Jun 11 '14 at 23:01
a string literal can only be 64k long. – njzk2 Jun 11 '14 at 23:12
you text should go in an xml files in the `res/values` directory under a `string` item. – njzk2 Jun 11 '14 at 23:13
this actually gave "cannot resolve symbol R" and had to rebuild my project completely >_> – Giannis Thanasiou Jun 12 '14 at 00:28

Error: constant string too long

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