ResourcesNotFoundException

Issue

I have a value in my dimens.xml defined as follows:

<dimen name="input_text_width">250dp</dimen>

I want to use it to dynamically size the width of a TextView, as follows:

tv.setWidth(activity.getResources().getInteger(R.dimen.input_text_width));

The resource exists (checked in R.java). I have run "clean" on my project more than once. Why do I keep getting this exception?

android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x7f050012 type #0x5 is not valid

Solution

You have to get the dimension pixels...

int size = activity.getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.input_text_width);
textView.setWidth(size);

Answered By - Gopal Gopi