"error: cannot find symbol method" in Android Studio

Question

I'm learning how to program Android in Android Studio slowly but surely, working on an app to open the mobile Facebook site in a fragment, with the intent to make multiple fragments for multiple social networks. I have my main (Facebook) fragment, but I'm getting this odd error:

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class fragment_main extends Fragment {

private WebView mWebView;

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

    mWebView = (WebView) getView().findViewById(R.id.activity_main_webview);
    WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();
    webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    mWebView.loadUrl("http://m.facebook.com");
    mWebView.setWebViewClient(new MyAppWebViewClient());
  }

public void onBackPressed() {
    if(mWebView.canGoBack()) {
        mWebView.goBack();
    } 
}
}

It keeps wanting to move my "mWebView" to my "private WebView," which gives more, odder errors. Also, apologizes if this is dumb.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '14 at 04:33

Reorder your statements like following; you are returning before you have done anything in your onCreateView() method

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
mWebView = (WebView) getView().findViewById(R.id.activity_main_webview);
WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new MyAppWebViewClient());
mWebView.loadUrl("http://m.facebook.com");
return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container, false);//
}

"error: cannot find symbol method" in Android Studio

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