The key must be an application-specific resource id.

Question

Why do I get this Exception?

05-18 20:29:38.044: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5453): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The key must be an application-specific resource id.
05-18 20:29:38.044: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5453):     at android.view.View.setTag(View.java:7704)
05-18 20:29:38.044: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5453):     at com.mypkg.viewP.inflateRow(viewP.java:518)

the line in question is:

((Button) row.findViewById(R.id.btnPickContact)).setTag(TAG_ONLINE_ID,objContact.onlineid);

and I have it defined as:

private static final int TAG_ONLINE_ID = 1;

Answer 1

The tag id must be unique so it wants it to be an id created in a resources file to guarantee uniqueness.

If the view will only contain one tag though you can just do

setTag(objContact.onlineid);