Android resource not found exception?

Question

I am having a strange problem using findViewById(id). It comes back with resource not found even though the resource is definitely there. It is a textview in a layout next t

Answer 1

Make sure you don't set any attributes programmaticly which are not available. I had the very same problem and the reason was a RemoteView.setFloat(id,"setWeight",1.0f); to a LinearLayout, which was not supported with Android before 4.x Unfortunately the error message was not very helpful on this.