Resources Not Found Exception in Android
There may be few newbies in Android programming having trouble understanding Resources Not Found Exception. So, I planned to explain it in this blog post and make the explanation as simple as I can. Resources Not Found Exception is thrown when the Resource API's failed to locate the resource. Let us go through an example to know in detail on why this exception is thrown. In this example, consider there is a text view on the UI which is used to show numbers from 10 to 1 and let's say we used a CountDownTimer class to achieve this task. If this was the code you've implemented, your app will crash when the onTick method gets executed for the first time. If you take a look at the log cat, you can see the API thrown a Resources Not Found Exception complaining that it cannot find the Strig Id. Simply, What this means is that the Resource API looked for a String named remainingTimeInSec and it failed to find it. This is because remainingTimeInSec is defined as int,...