hardcoded string “Button”, should use @string resource

Issue

I am new in Android app development and using Java language. My problem is every time I make a TextView or Button there is a triangle with the exclamation mark below them. and when I click it I saw a message saying:

hardcoded string “Button”, should use @string resource

I have two activities, in my main activity there is a Button that when you click it you will go in second activity. But when I go to my main.java to make a code for the button. There's always the above shown error. I think the eclipse can't find the id of my button and same for my TextView they have same error message.

Here is the code I made:

Button b = FindViewById(R.id.button1);

I also add:

Button b = (Button) FindViewById(R.id.button1);

I am using the latest eclipse classic and ADT august issue. The platform is Android 4.1 API 16.

Solution

You shouldn't hardcode the "text" on the widgets use the strings resources ie., strings in the strings.xml to set the text. Declare the "text" you want to display as a string in strings.xml and access it using @string/your_string_name in the layout file.

Answered By - Dinesh Venkata