Answer 1

No, because what you're doing in requesting a reference to a child element that has a certain name and Eclipse isn't actually loading in the layout xml so it can't know what is in it.

Answered by: Leonardo363 | Posted: 26-02-2022

Answer 2

I know this is a very late response but it might help someone who read.

You can use the android annotations library for doing something similar to what you want.

As you can see on their page, you can write a field in the code like this:

@ViewById
ListView bookmarkList;

The library will findById an item with id R.id.bookmarkList and cast it to ListView.

Or you can use the annotation like this

@ViewById(R.id.myTextView)
TextView someName;

if you want to give a better name to the field.

DISCLAIMER: I never used the library so I'm not sure whether you can use just that annotation or you're bound to use their whole set of annotations.

Answered by: Michael452 | Posted: 26-02-2022

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