Fun Facts app has stopped working on the Emulator. Please help me!

Question

When I run the fun facts app I can't get past the first screen and I get a message saying the app has stopped working.
In the forums I found how to look at the errors in the logcat but the problem is I don't understand them , nothing familiar is cropping up.
The problem started when I changed the text colour to match the background colour. 
Below is the logcat errors when I try to run the app.
Can you fellow tree housers help me solve this?
Thanks!!
08-06 07:43:47.990    5897-5897/orlamcgreal.extracredit E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: orlamcgreal.extracredit, PID: 5897
    android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: String resource ID #0xfff092b0
            at android.content.res.Resources.getText(Resources.java:299)
            at android.widget.TextView.setText(TextView.java:4132)
            at orlamcgreal.extracredit.Extre$1.onClick(Extre.java:42)
            at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4780)
            at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:19866)
            at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5257)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698)

Orla McGreal · Answer

Hi Dhruv,
Thanks so much for the help.
I have done that and now am at the line of broken code but don't know how to fix it... 
Below is the code along with the lines above it. 
I understand that a string id has not been found , but I have looked at the main screen ones and they seem ok.
I'm a bit confused.
Any help you can give me would be great!!
 public CharSequence getText(int id) throws NotFoundException {
        CharSequence res = mAssets.getResourceText(id);
        if (res != null) {
            return res;
        }
        throw new NotFoundException("String resource ID #0x"
                                    + Integer.toHexString(id));
    }

Dhruv Gupta · Answer

Well if you read one of the lines it reads:
android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: String resource ID #0xfff092b0
I'm guessing that you have a resource file that is missing
Run the application again, when it breaks
Click on the java 299 that takes you to the line where it is breaking.
Good Luck

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Fun Facts app has stopped working on the Emulator. Please help me!

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