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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) The Model-View-Controller Pattern Adding Custom Constructors

peter keves
peter keves
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Posted by peter keves
peter keves
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new Choice

at 2:51 we wrote new Choice I don't quite understand why can somebody help me ?

1 Answer

Hao Tran
Hao Tran
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Hao Tran
Hao Tran
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When you use "new", you are creating a new instance of the object (in this case, a Choice object).

This is where the custom constructors (of the lesson) come into play. When you create a new instance of an object, the system will call the constructor method to know how to create the object. In this case, the constructor for a Choice object is the following:

public Choice(String text, int nextPage) {
    mText = text;
    mNextPage = nextPage;
}

So when he creates a Choice object (via the new statement), he provides data to be included in the object (the text and the ID for the next page).

peter keves
peter keves
6,854 Points
peter keves
peter keves
6,854 Points

Thanks for quick reply :) ! it helped me to understand it