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When I set text to anything, all views is hidden

I am new to java for android.
Then I attempt to put in textview anything, all views do not be shown.
Main.XML:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mainLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="center">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textNew"
android:text="Hello world"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingBottom="75px"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/buttonNew"
android:text="Click me!"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>
MainActivity.java:
public class MainActivity extends Activity
{
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
int randomInt;
TextView textNew = findViewById(R.id.textNew);
SharedPreferences sp = getSharedPreferences("settings", Activity.MODE_PRIVATE);
Button clickButton = findViewById(R.id.buttonNew);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
textNew.setText("5");
randomInt = Integer.parseInt(sp.getString("setting", "0"));
}
}
I tried to delete textNew.setText("text"). It is helped. But how I can set text!? Me need it!

You can't access the button and the Textview before setting the view content
SetContentView(View) sets the activity content to an explicit view.
In your case, you're setting the view to R.layout.main where the Button and the TextView are defined
To fix this move the onCreate and the setContentView before the rest of the code in the onCreate method
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

Is there a button component with a transparent background or can you create one?

I'm looking for a button just like this (transparent background and when clicked it becomes gray):Image of the component

Your question is not so clear, but here is how you can create custom or style Button

I succeeded.
The solution is:
xml(button_category_template):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Button
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
style="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Borderless"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textSize="20sp"
/>
java(MainActivity):
public class startActivity extends AppCompatActivity{
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_start);
Button btn = (Button)getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.button_category_template, null);
lnr = findViewById(R.id.layoutApp);
lnr.addView(btn);
}
}
It may be possible to do it in a simpler way, but in my project I used it this way.

The activities in android studio don't switch after pressing the button

I've already tried searching the Google on how to switch activities in android studio, even in the official documentation with tutorial. I did it exactly like it was said but I am still unable to get redirected to another activity after clicking a button.
I've entered an onClick name of the method to the button
it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/pmsztaL.png (can't post images yet)
and this is my MainActivity.class file with said method
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
public void handleButtonAddNew(View view) {
MainActivity.this.startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, AddItemActivity.class));
}
}
After pressing the button in a phone, the button does nothing.
This is my AddItemActivity.class
public class AddItemActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_add_item);
}
public void handleButtonRemember(View view) {
finish();
}
}
How come the button doesn't work, what did I do wrong?
EDITS
EDIT: Successfully ran emulator and the buttons did in fact work, the problem lies within my phone, the buttons there don't want to work. Where could be the issue now?
EDIT: XML Layout of MainActivity.class
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<Button
android:id="#+id/buttonAddNew"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginEnd="188dp"
android:layout_marginRight="188dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="264dp"
android:text="#string/buttonAdd"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent" />
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView2"
android:layout_width="395dp"
android:layout_height="715dp"
android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" />
</ScrollView>
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
EDIT: The problem was with scroll view blocking the clickable button so on my phone the button didn't register any clicks, after removing the scrollview the button works normally.

I'm afraid that this button doesn't get any listeners attached.
The programatic approach
From the Official Android Documentation
I'd suggest you use this in your onCreate callback:
Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.your_btn_id);
button.setOnClickListener((view) -> { theMethodYouWantToCallHere(view); });
XML approach
Please double check the following using this approach
Your activity is registered in the AndroidManifest.xml
You're including the android namespace to the XML file in the parent container of the layout file. IE: xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
Make sure you're setting the content view for the activity with setContentView(R.layout.your_layout_file);
Once 2 is satisfied make sure you're using the android namespace. IE: android:onClick="yourMethod"
As you're currently doing: Make sure the onClick callbacked method has the View view parameter; no more, no less
Make sure the onClick function is public in the activity.
And that no other clickable views are covering the view you're registering the onClick listener for :)
Including the namespace: xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
XML file
<FrameLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<Button android:text="Click me!" android:onClick="clicked" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
</FrameLayout>
The activity
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
public void clicked(View view){
Toast.makeText(this, "Hey! Im clicked!",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}

Why I can't dinamically replace the immage of an ImageView into this simple Android application?

I am doing the first experiment with Android and I have the following problem with this simple application.
Basically my application consist into an ImageView showing a background immage, a TextView showing a message and a button.
When the user click this button the text of my TextView have to change and the background immage of my *ImageView also have to change.
So this is my activiy_main.xml file containing the layout of my main activity:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#B388FF"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/android_cookie_image_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:src="#drawable/before_cookie" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/status_text_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
android:text="I'm so hungry"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="34sp" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="16dp"
android:text="EAT COOKIE"
android:onClick="eatCookie"/>
</LinearLayout>
And this is the code of the previous activity:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
public void eatCookie(View v) {
TextView messaggio = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.status_text_view);
messaggio.setText("I'm so full");
ImageView sfondo = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.android_cookie_image_view);
sfondo.setImageDrawable(Drawable.createFromPath("#drawable/after_cookie"));
}
}
As you can see, when the user click the button it is perform the eatCookie() method that first retrieve the TextView reference and change the text of this TextView. It works fine.
Then it retrieve the reference related to the ImageView and try to change the viewed immage, I have done it by this line:
sfondo.setImageDrawable(Drawable.createFromPath("#drawable/after_cookie"));
In my project I have put the after_cookie.jpg file into the /res/drawable/ folder.
The problem is that it can't work. The default immage of the android_cookie_image_view disappear but is not replaced with the after_cookie.jpg image.
What is wrong? What am I missing? How can I fix this issue?

Try this
sfondo.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.after_cookie));

Use this instead.
ImageView sfondo = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.android_cookie_image_view);
sfondo.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.after_cookie));
And make sure you call that eatCookie function on onCreate.
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
eatCookie();
}

Changing Action Bar Colour Programmatically may cause nullPointerException?

I tried to change the colour of my action bar in Android app using the following line of code:
getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(getResources().getColor(R.color.background_actionbar)));
However, this gives a warning that reads:
Method invocation 'getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(getResources().getColor(R.color.backgr...' may produce 'java.lang.NullPointerException'
Any ideas how to work around this?
Note: I am changing the colour programmatically because changing it via XML theme/style didn't work.
Using minimum SDK 16.
Testing on Android 4.4.4 device.

Yes, If you are using themes with NoActionBar then you will get the NullPointerException.
Try this:
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// The Action Bar is a window feature. The feature must be requested
// before setting a content view. Normally this is set automatically
// by your Activity's theme in your manifest. The provided system
// theme Theme.WithActionBar enables this for you. Use it as you would
// use Theme.NoTitleBar. You can add an Action Bar to your own themes
// by adding the element <item name="android:windowActionBar">true</item>
// to your style definition.
getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// experiment with the ActionBar
ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(getResources().getColor(R.color.background_actionbar)));
//actionBar.hide();
}
or
You can use Toolbar
toolbar.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/light_blue">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
Include it in activity's layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/toolbar_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<include layout="#layout/toolbar" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Use this code to Activity:
public class YourActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private Toolbar toolbar;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_layout);
// Set a Toolbar to replace the ActionBar.
toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
//toolbar.setTitle("Setting");
}
public void setSupportActionBar(#Nullable Toolbar toolbar) {
getDelegate().setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
}
}