The key must be an application-specific resource id

Question

Why do I get this Exception?

05-18 20:29:38.044: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5453): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The key must be an application-specific reso         


        

Answer 1

The tag id must be unique so it wants it to be an id created in a resources file to guarantee uniqueness.

If the view will only contain one tag though you can just do

setTag(objContact.onlineid);