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Android get id for an edit text field from a context xml file

I have an activity called PeopleActivity, with a layout xml of activity_people.xml.
This activity is using the Android Studio Navigation Drawer Activity template.
I have a list view in the content_people.xml file named people_list. When I attempt to associate this control in the back end, it is unable to find the id. I am attempting it as:
peopleList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.people_list);
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Did an update to the code section to reflect the correct control referenced.

you should declare your listview like this:
peopleSearch = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.people_list);
not as EditText

I found the answer. You cannot use capital letters in the naming of your controls. Once I fixed this, everything worked fine.

In android Studio, I want when i click on button , next activity/fragment should come from right side

In android Studio, I want when i click on button , next activity/fragment should come from right side and present activity sholud gone left.I implimented its working on Activity but not on adapters is showing error.
holder.questions.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
Intent i = new Intent(DoctorsProfile.this,Questions.class);
i.putExtra("DOCTOR_ID",doctor_id);
startActivity(i);
overridePendingTransition( R.anim.slide_in_right_up, R.anim.slide_out_right_up);
}
});
overridePendingTransition is working on Activity but not working on Adapters of Recyclerview and Listview, Please tell any other option. I want when i click on recyclerview item next Activity should navigate or come from right side by using overridePendingTransition.

Fragment fragment = Fragment.newInstance();
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
fragmentTransaction.setCustomAnimations(R.anim.fragment_slide_left_enter,
R.anim.fragment_slide_left_exit, R.anim.fragment_slide_right_enter,
R.anim.fragment_slide_right_exit);
Utils.addFragmentToActivity(fragmentTransaction, Fragment, R.id
.content_frame);

This tip features how to change Android’s default animation when switching between Activities.
The code to change the animation between two Activities is very simple: just call the overridePendingTransition() from the current Activity, after starting a new Intent. This method is available from Android version 2.0 (API level 5), and it takes two parameters, that are used to define the enter and exit animations of your current Activity.
Here’s an example:
//Calls a new Activity
startActivity(new Intent(this, NewActivity.class));
//Set the transition -> method available from Android 2.0 and beyond
overridePendingTransition(R.anim.slide_in_right_up, R.anim.slide_out_right_up);
These two parameters are resource IDs for animations defined with XML files (one for each animation). These files have to be placed inside the app’s res/anim folder. Examples of these files can be found at the Android API demo, inside the anim folder.
for example code visit http://www.christianpeeters.com/android-tutorials/tutorial-activity-slide-animation/#more-483

Change like this code you must be passing activity as context in adapter
holder.questions.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
Intent i = new Intent(DoctorsProfile.this,Questions.class);
i.putExtra("DOCTOR_ID",doctor_id);
Activity activity = (Activity) context;
activity.startActivity(i);
activity.overridePendingTransition(R.anim.slide_in_right_up, R.anim.slide_out_right_up);
}
});
Note : Context is the Base Object of Activity
Update :
I have checked the accepted answer but hope you understand that it will be called everytime when your activity get launched and thats not supposed to be best practice. I am suggesting better approach if you want to follow the accepted answer .
Alternative :
Pass one parameter in bundle to new activity to make sure that transition coming from that specific adapter so double transation should not happen when you are coming rom any other activity also.

There is a easy way to do this. just put overridePendingTransition on your OnCreate method of next Activity/Fragment.So that when next Activity will come it will come according to your choice.Need not add overridePendingTransition on adapters.
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_ask_question);
overridePendingTransition( R.anim.slide_in_right_up, R.anim.slide_out_right_up);
}

Adding Fragment to TabHost within another Fragment

I am trying to add a fragment as one of the tabs in my tabhost on android. I think I need to load the fragment using fragment manager, but I am unsure about how to approach this. Here is my code for setting up the tabHost:
Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), FilesFragment.class);
tabSpec = tabHost.newTabSpec("Page 1").setContent(intent).setIndicator("How to Print");
tabHost.addTab(tabSpec);
tabSpec = tabHost.newTabSpec("Page 2").setContent(homePageTab2.getId()).setIndicator("Files");
tabHost.addTab(tabSpec);
tabSpec = tabHost.newTabSpec("Page 3").setContent(homePageTab3.getId()).setIndicator("Drives");
tabHost.addTab(tabSpec);
This is the run time error:
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Did you forget to call 'public void setup(LocalActivityManager activityGroup)'?
at android.widget.TabHost$IntentContentStrategy.getContentView(TabHost.java:747)
at android.widget.TabHost.setCurrentTab(TabHost.java:413)
at android.widget.TabHost.addTab(TabHost.java:240)
at io.uprint.uprint.Home.onCreateView(Home.java:86)

The answer is right there in the logcat...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Did you forget to call 'public void setup(LocalActivityManager activityGroup)'?
From the docs for TabHost...
public void setup (LocalActivityManager activityGroup)
If you are using setContent(android.content.Intent), this must be called since the activityGroup is needed to launch the local activity. This is done for you if you extend TabActivity.
Parameters
activityGroup Used to launch activities for tab content.

How to handle exception while clicking link using textview in android

I am working on an android project in which i have to add links i am following the given below example.. But when i am clicking on the link neither it is highlighting nor i am able to access the link. Clicking on the link is causing an exception which says
android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?
I want to open the link in the browser when i am clicking on the link.How to do it efficiently?. I am expecting an answer soon !Thank you
NB: i am using a dynamic textview in my actual project
public class StackOverflowActivity extends Activity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
TextView link = new TextView(getApplicationContext);
String linkText = "Visit the <a href='http://stackoverflow.com'>StackOverflow</a> web page.";
link.setText(Html.fromHtml(linkText));
link.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
}

Use android:autoLink="web" in your TextView xml. And if it does not work, try android:linksClickable="true"
Based on your error, if using dynamic TextView make sure you refer your view with this object as
TextView yourView = new TextView(this);
this refers to your Activity context where I think you might have made a little mistake.
You should not use getApplicationContext for creating a view with Activity context.

I believe you have to inflate the layout that contains your TextView before you can use it, like so:
getActivity().getLayoutInflater()

Robotium - Trying to click home button in app

I'm new to robotium and i'm trying to write a quick and dirty script to run through all screens in an app.
The problem i have mainly with the 'home button' in the app. I've tried lots of options but i cant seem to get it to click there except with index, which is not what i want.
When i check out the button with the hierarchyviewer it looks like this:
Link
However when i try for example:
assertTrue(
"Wait for text (id: myapp.R.id.home) failed.",
solo.waitForImageById("myapp.R.id.home", 20000));
solo.clickOnImage((ImageView) solo.findViewById("myapp.R.id.home"));
solo.waitForActivity("MenuActivity");
It fails at the waitForImageByID line. Ive tried multiple options like waitForImageButton etc, but i just cant seem to get it clicked. What am i missing here?
junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: View with id: '0' is not found!
at com.jayway.android.robotium.solo.Solo.getView(Solo.java:1990)
at com.jayway.android.robotium.solo.Solo.getView(Solo.java:1970)
at com.bitbar.recorder.extensions.OtherUtils.a(OtherUtils.java:246)
at com.bitbar.recorder.extensions.OtherUtils.b(OtherUtils.java:241)
at com.bitbar.recorder.extensions.v.a(Waiter.java:71)
at com.bitbar.recorder.extensions.ExtSolo.waitForImageButtonById(ExtSolo.java:4176)
at com.example.android.apis.test.Test.testRecorded(Test.java:137)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at android.test.InstrumentationTestCase.runMethod(InstrumentationTestCase.java:214)
at android.test.InstrumentationTestCase.runTest(InstrumentationTestCase.java:199)
at android.test.AndroidTestRunner.runTest(AndroidTestRunner.java:191)
at android.test.AndroidTestRunner.runTest(AndroidTestRunner.java:176)
at android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner.onStart(InstrumentationTestRunner.java:554)
at android.app.Instrumentation$InstrumentationThread.run(Instrumentation.java:1740)

Use the following line to press the home button in the action bar
solo.clickOnActionBarHomeButton();

The issue is that the id that it is referring is not in your application, it is in androids default R file, try android.R.id.home and it should work fine. It is worth noting though that if your application uses action bar sherlock to support the action bar pre 4.0 that this will have a different ID there and you will have to handle this in your test.
You can see this for yourself looking at: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.id.html

When you are using ActionBarSherlock there are two different Ids you have to check, android.R.id.home for API-Level>11 and abs__home for lower levels (provided by ActionBarSherlock):
View homeButton = activity.findViewById(android.R.id.home);
if (homeButton == null) {
homeButton = activity.findViewById(R.id.abs__home);
}

What about this code:
ArrayList<LinearLayout> ll = solo.getCurrentViews(LinearLayout.class);
//You can change 1 with the ordinal number of LinearLayout you want to click.
solo.clickOnView(ll.get(1));
or also
ArrayList<ImageView> iv = solo.getCurrentViews(ImageView.class);
//You can change 0 with the ordinal number of Image you want to click.
solo.clickOnView(iv.get(0));
I think if you identify the correct id for view or linear layout or image view it should work.

Dave C's answer was working only partially for me. The button was clicked but before the preceding screen was loaded assertions had started and thus were always false. The solution is to run "home click" on the main thread (Robotium 5.2.1):
getInstrumentation().runOnMainSync(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
solo.clickOnActionBarHomeButton();
}
});

From your question I can see that it is an image view. You can click on any view using the following piece of code.
View view = solo.getView("View_name_from_hierachy_viewer");
solo.clickOnView(view);
View_name_from_hierachy_viewer in your case will be "home".
Let me know if this does not work.