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I want to be able to set the text of buttons using the strings xml file. I have this code; 

Button playVid = (Button)this.findViewById(R.id.vidbutton1);
playVid.SetText(this.getApplicationContext().getString(R.string.play_video));

And this xml

<string name="play_video">Play Video</string>

But I get the compile

error: cannot resolve method settext(java.lang.string)

I am using Android Studio. Everywhere I have read suggest that you can use strings to set text (makes sense, right?), so I am very confused.

This also will not work:

playVid.SetText("Test");

Bug in AS?

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    the error message does not match your code. Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 20:54

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Mind your casing. Use setText() instead of SetText().

Also there's an overload setText(int) that takes in a resource id. You can use it to set a value from resources without using getString() to obtain it yourself first.

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Methods in Java usually start with a lower-case letter. Maybe that's what your problem is here.

Try playVid.setText("Test"); instead of playVid.SetText("Test");

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This works perfectly fine:

Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.some_button);
button.setText(R.string.hello_world);

Make sure you imports are correct ;)

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