Expecting member declaration even though the val is declared the line above - android-studio

Question

I looked at all of the other questions about this error, but none of them helped. I am trying to create a reference to a button in my layout file, and when I set the onClickListener, I get "expecting member declaration." This occurs on line 35. Side note, I am also getting the error "Function declaration must have a name" on the same line. Here is the code:
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle
import android.view.View
import android.widget.*
private var userLocation: Any = ""
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
val spinner: Spinner = findViewById<Spinner>(R.id.locations)
spinner.adapter = ArrayAdapter(
this,
android.support.v7.appcompat.R.layout.support_simple_spinner_dropdown_item,
resources.getStringArray(R.array.rooms)
)
spinner.onItemSelectedListener = object : AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
override fun onItemSelected(
adapterView: AdapterView<*>?,
view: View?,
position: Int,
p3: Long
) {
userLocation = adapterView?.getItemAtPosition(position)!!
}
override fun onNothingSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?) {
}
}
}
val button: Button = findViewById<Button>(R.id.button)
button.setOnClickListener{
Toast.makeText(this, "Selected $userLocation", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
}
}

Answer 1

These lines of code:
val button: Button = findViewById<Button>(R.id.button)
button.setOnClickListener{
Toast.makeText(this, "Selected $userLocation", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
}
you have defined outside any functions. That means button is a class-level property you are defining. Properties are initialized before any functions are called, so this findViewById call will fail at runtime because it will be called before onCreate().
And you cannot simply call a function like setOnClickListener at the the top level of a function in the middle of nowhere. That's why you have the "expecting member declaration" error.
You need to move all of this code inside your onCreate() function.