I hope this is the right place to post this. So I have been working on a basic app to get my feet wet and I had a few questions.

I find myself doing the entire program inside the onCreate function. The bigger the app gets the more my bad practice flags are going off. The problem I am having however is accessing data outside the app. For example I want to set 5 labels visible and invisible but if I do this in a separate function I will have to recreate the TextView objects. I tried to make them data members of the function but since they have to be final to be accessed from button listeners I couldnt assign them right and it gave me problems. I just feel like I could be doing it better.



I understand the string references but it seems like it would slow things down for what I am trying to do. I want to display data such as:

Name: someName
Age: someAge

So for example the Name: and Age: labels could be string resources but it feels like referencing them would be slower than just doing android:text="Name:" in main.xml. Am I wrong and or missing something here and if I am write where do we want to use string resources?

Thanks

I am having however is accessing data outside the app. For example I want to set 5 labels visible and invisible but if I do this in a separate function I will have to recreate the TextView objects.

Could you explain a little more what you're doing in your onCreate()? Also, seeing some of you main.xml would be helpful. Are you setting up your text views there?

-Thanks

post the snippet of code which you have written so far and then maybe we can help you

First off I apologize if my syntax is wrong, I am afterall posting this from my phone.

As per you problem with the textviews:
You need to declare the views a private or public variable, then in onCreate you create an instance of the view, and finally you may use it as you wish in a function:



-Dan-