[android] Kotlin: How to get and set a text to TextView in Android using Kotlin?

I'm newbie.

I want to change text of TextView While click on it.

My code:

val text: TextView = findViewById(R.id.android_text) as TextView
    text.setOnClickListener {
        text.setText(getString(R.string.name))
    }

Output: I got the output but showing use property access syntax.

Can anyone tell me how to do it?

Thanks in advance.

Find the text view from the layout.

val textView : TextView = findViewById(R.id.android_text) as TextView

Setting onClickListener on the textview.

textview.setOnClickListener(object: View.OnClickListener {
    override fun onClick(view: View): Unit {
        // Code here.
        textView.text = getString(R.string.name)
    }
})

Argument parentheses can be omitted from View.setOnClickListener if we pass a single function literal argument. So, the simplified code will be:

textview.setOnClickListener {
    // Code here.
    textView.text = getString(R.string.name)
}

to set text in kotlin

textview.text = "write here"

just add below line and access direct xml object

import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.activity_main.*

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        txt_HelloWorld.text = "abc"
    }

replace activity_main according to your XML name

import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.MainActivity.*

class Mainactivity : AppCompatActivity() {


    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.MainActivity)

        txt.setText("hello Kotlin")

    }

}

Use textView.text for getter and setter, ex:

val textView = findViewById<TextView>(R.id.textView)
// Set text
textView.text = "Hello World!"
// Get text
val textViewString = textView.text.toString()

  <TextView
        android:id="@+id/usage"
        android:layout_marginTop="220dip"
        android:layout_marginLeft="45dip"
        android:layout_marginRight="15dip"
        android:typeface="serif"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Google "
        android:textColor="#030900"/>


usage.text="hello world"

findViewById(R.id.android_text) does not need typecasting.

The top post has 'as TextView' appended on the end. You might get other compiler errors if you leave this on. The following should be fine.

val text: TextView = findViewById(R.id.android_text) as TextView

Where 'android_text' is the ID of your textView

Yes its late - but may help someone on reference

xml with EditText, Button and TextView

onClick on Button will update the value from EditText to TextView

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/et_id"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_submit_id"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/txt_id"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

Look at the code do the action in your class

Don't need to initialize the id's of components like in Java. You can do it by their xml Id's

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_sample)

        btn_submit_id.setOnClickListener {
            txt_id.setText(et_id.text);
        }
    }

also you can set value in TextView like,

textview.text = "your value"