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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) User Input Finding Views by IDs

Posted by Sampurna Tuladhar
Sampurna Tuladhar
180 Points

Initialize the member variable mExterminateButton using the findViewById() method. The ID for the button is button1.

I am very confused.

MainActivity.java 
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    protected Button mExterminateButton;

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

      mExterminateButton = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.button1);

        // Declare our view variables

    }

}

1 Answer

Evan Demaris
Evan Demaris
64,262 Points

Hi Sampurna,

It looks like you're trying to cast the button mExterminateButton as an EditText. If you update that to a Button, your code should pass the Challenge.

mExterminateButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);

Hope that helps!