Getting EditText field from XML

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Published on 2010-03-23T11:26:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 16:43 UTC
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I have an activity in my app, when i call the line

EditText username = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.usernameText);

the app crashes, why is this?

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