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?

Solution

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.

Comments

[Raghunandan]

what is the api level you are testing on?

[Paulo Roberto Rosa]

My device have API Level 15(Android 4.0.3)

[Raghunandan]

It is available in api levle 17. developer.android.com/reference/android/view/… and that's why the error.

[Paulo Roberto Rosa]

Ok, this was helpful, but what i can do to align my TextView assuming that i use a API Level 15 Device?

[Raghunandan]

@PauloRoberto looking for this stackoverflow.com/questions/432037/…

[Paulo Roberto Rosa]

@Raghunandan this dont solve my problem because i need to set it programatically, and i have the same error if i try to set/get the Gravity of my TextView

[Raghunandan]

@PauloRoberto how did you try setting the gravity programatically. show the code.

[Paulo Roberto Rosa]

i do not remember exactly, can you show me how to do that, so i will try again

[Paulo Roberto Rosa]

@Raghunandan i edited my whole question and voted to be re-opened, you can see it later if you want, and your comment is correct, all the problem was API Level.