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Java

Gustavo Rocha
Gustavo Rocha
14,151 Points

Application crashes when i open it The emulator shows "Unfortuately, Fun Facts has stoped"

package com.example.funfacts;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.graphics.Color; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.RelativeLayout; import android.widget.TextView;

import java.util.Random;

import static com.example.funfacts.R.id.funFactLayout;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { //Declare our fields variables private TextView factTextView; private Button showFactButton; private RelativeLayout relativeLayout; private FactBook factBook = new FactBook();

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    // Assign the Views to the corresponding varibles
    factTextView = findViewById(R.id.factTextView);
    showFactButton = findViewById(R.id.showFactButton);
    relativeLayout = findViewById(funFactLayout);

    View.OnClickListener listener = new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            String fact = factBook.getFact();

            //Update the screen with our new fact
            factTextView.setText(fact);
            relativeLayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);

        }
    };
    showFactButton.setOnClickListener(listener);
}

}

1 Answer

Tonnie Fanadez
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Tonnie Fanadez
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 22,796 Points

Hello Gustavo,

I think you forgot to search the relative layout by it id, so the System doesn't know what RelativeLayout is and can't find it.

//your code
 relativeLayout = findViewById(funFactLayout);

// try this
 relativeLayout = findViewById(R.id.funFactLayout);

Cheers