How to get text from EditText?

Question

The question is quite simple. But I want to know where exactly do we make our references to the gui elements? As in which is the best place to define:

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Answer 1

Well, it depends on your needs. Very often I keep my references to widgets in activity (as a class fields) - and set them in onCreate method. I think that is a good idea
Probably the reason for your nulls is that you are trying to call findViewById() before you set contentView() in your onCreate() method - please check that.