android.widget.TextView.setTextAlignment(): java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

Question

Situation:

I have a TextView that have the property

android:textAlignment="center"

I am generating another TextView dinamically, based on my TextView from XML Layout, using a clone, cloning all the basic properties to work the way above.

Problem:

To do this i need to use this method:

this.myTextView.setMyTextViewProperty(MyTextView.getMyTextViewProperty());

for example:

this.MyTextView.setText(MyTextView.getText());

Note that this.MyTextViewis a local variable and MyTextView is a private var declared on the top of the file, under class name.

I do this on all the properties of the TextView but when i hit the following line of code from the TextAlignment property...:

this.myTextView.setTextAlignment(View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_CENTER);

I tried to set it to a Custom Aligment instead of getting from my XML TextView It gives me an error:

11-20 15:27:04.460: E/AndroidRuntime(9185): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
11-20 15:27:04.460: E/AndroidRuntime(9185): java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: android.widget.TextView.setTextAlignment

But i see on Ctrl + Space that the method exists, so i cant understand what is happening.

A second try was, to set my TextView property to the property that comes from my TextView:

this.myTextView.setTextAlignment(MyTextView.getTextAlignment());

With no success, too.

Obs: i do not want a Android XML Layout solution, i want a solution on code, because i generate the TextView dinamically on the Activity

I'm using API Level 15

Any help?

Answer 1

The setTextAlignment method was added in API level 17. Maybe your compiler in the IDE is above 17 and the device/emulator which you are testing is less than that. Here the link to setTextAlignment.

Added from the comments:

For API level 15 and below, you want setGravity, per this question.