findViewById is not defined by Fragment

Question

AutoCompleteTextView autoCompView = 
          (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_city);

Gives me an error

The method findViewById is undefined for the type CityFragment.

with:

public class CityFragment extends Fragment {

    public CityFragment() {}

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.city,
                    container, false);

    AutoCompleteTextView autoCompView = 
                (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_city);

        autoCompView.setAdapter(
                       new PlacesAutoCompleteAdapter(this, R.layout.list_item)
                );

    return rootView;
    }
}

I basically just copied the code from https://developers.google.com/places/training/autocomplete-android

Any ideas why I get the error?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '13 at 17:13

4

That is because indeed Fragment does not have such method findViewById(). Instead, you should use the rootView to access it.

AutoCompleteTextView autoCompView = 
                (AutoCompleteTextView)rootView.findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_city);

answered Sep 27 '13 at 17:13

Andy Res

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '13 at 17:13

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Change with :

AutoCompleteTextView autoCompView = 
                (AutoCompleteTextView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_city);

answered Sep 27 '13 at 17:13

Alexis C.

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 27 '13 at 17:14

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Change:

AutoCompleteTextView autoCompView = 
          (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_city);

to:

AutoCompleteTextView autoCompView = 
                (AutoCompleteTextView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_city);

answered Sep 27 '13 at 17:14

Umer Farooq

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 27 '13 at 17:43

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Here rootView is the parent for AutoCompleteTextView. So change it with:

AutoCompleteTextView autoCompView = 
                (AutoCompleteTextView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_city);

answered Sep 27 '13 at 17:43

Swetank

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findViewById is not defined by Fragment

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