Adding TextView to LinearLayout in Android

Question

I have 2 TextViews and I want to add those to LinearLayout, but when I ran the project, only one TextView appreared.

Here's my code:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        TextView textView = new TextView(this);
        textView.setText("Thank you, Jesus!");
        textView.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);

        TextView textView2 = new TextView(this);
        textView.setText("Dont give up on me!");
        textView.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);

        LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout(this);
        layout.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);

        layout.addView(textView);
        layout.addView(textView2);

        setContentView(layout);
    }

}

After running, textView2 was the only view present in the LinearLayout.

Can someone explain to me what was going on?

Amarjit · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-13 09:33:10Z

1

Use textView2 for calling setText and setTextColor method for textView2 because currently you are using textView :

    TextView textView2 = new TextView(this);
    textView2.setText("Dont give up on me!");
    textView2.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);

Suggestion also set height/width for all views by calling setLayoutParams method

Another Suggestion : Add Orientation to Linear layout by using: layout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);

edited Feb 13, 2015 at 9:33

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answered Feb 13, 2015 at 9:24

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