Understanding initialization & declaration in java.

Question

From what I understand initializing a variable means to assign it a value? You can concatenate this when declaring like this?

Public Int thisthing = 0; <~ public int thisthing is declaration & (=0) is proper initialization?

Then
Thisthing = (TextView) findViewByid(R. Id. Guielement);

Does this mean that now i have initialized my variable of Guielement to a default value of 0? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Public Int thisthing = 0; <~ public int thisthing is declaration & (=0) is proper initialization?

Yes, it is!

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Thisthing = (TextView) findViewByid(R. Id. Guielement);

Assuming that thisthing is the same variable of the previous question, this is wrong. You're trying to put a "TextView" variable inside a int variable, that is not possible. You are not initializing Guielement in this case, you are only getting its value.

Answer 2

How do i go about initializing Guielement?