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 reason why you want to save the value by an id is, that you want to cover more than one value in this tag, right?
Here a more simple solution:
Let's say you want to save two values (Strings) into this tag: "firstname" and "lastname". You can save them both in one string, separated by semicolon:

v.setTag(firstname + ";" + lastname);

... and access them by splitting them into an string array:

String[] data = v.getTag().toString().split(";");
System.out.println(data[0]) //firstname
System.out.println(data[1]) //lastname