I'm trying to make the whole screen clickable so I'm trying to set an id for a layout and find it in java class. When I do this, it says incompatiable types (layout vs a view). I understand they are different types but upon googling this, several posts have suggested selecting the layout in an activity in this manner. They can make a call such as this -

```
RelativeLayout theLayout = (RelativeLayout) this.findViewById(R.id.Layout)

```

and they don't seem to be getting this error. 

Another stackoverflow post with this - [onTouchListener for entire screen](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5648985/ontouchlistener-for-entire-screen)

My code referencing this is below - 

```
<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:id="@+id/thelayout" >
    <TextView android:text="This will change with speech" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/textview"/>
</RelativeLayout>

```

And in activity - 

```
RelativeLayout theLayout = this.findViewById(R.id.thelayout);

```

Am I missing somethinng?