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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) Intents and Multiple Activities Using String Resources

Posted by Bart Kluczynski
Bart Kluczynski
15,326 Points

No idea how to use the buttonLabel

Hi guys,

Can you please help, as i am stuck and i could not find any relevant answer in the forum?

I am trying to set the text for loadPuppiesButton with buttonLabel variable, but i clearly do something wrong.

Finally, use the buttonLabel variable to set the text for loadPuppiesButton instead of the current hard-coded String.

Cheers!

CodeChallenge.java 
Button loadPuppiesButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.puppiesButton);
String buttonLabel = getString(R.string.morePuppies);
String buttonLabel = loadPuppiesButton.setText("LOAD");



           //     String name = mNameField.getText().toString();
strings.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
  <string name="morePuppies">See More Puppies</string>
</resources>

5 Answers

Suleyman Orazgulyyev
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Suleyman Orazgulyyev
Courses Plus Student 5,798 Points
Suleyman Orazgulyyev
Suleyman Orazgulyyev
Courses Plus Student 5,798 Points

Hey, I know It's been a while, and you probably solved the problem, but for the future students I'll post this answer. What Jeremy wrote is right, but in this particular challenge in order to finish it you need to do it on a new line. So you will have something looking like that:

Button loadPuppiesButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.puppiesButton);
String buttonLabel = "";
loadPuppiesButton.setText("LOAD");
buttonLabel = getString(R.string.morePuppies);
loadPuppiesButton.setText(buttonLabel);
Jonathan Barnthouse
Jonathan Barnthouse
2,801 Points

Thanks Suleyman, your answer helped.

Jeremy Faith
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Jeremy Faith
Courses Plus Student 56,696 Points
Jeremy Faith
Jeremy Faith
Courses Plus Student 56,696 Points

The challenge wants you to use the buttonLabel variable to set the text for loadPuppiesButton. Right now it is hard-coded with LOAD. You need to replace "LOAD" in the setText method with buttonLabel. 

loadPuppiesButton.setText(buttonLabel);

Hope this helps.

Suleyman Orazgulyyev
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Suleyman Orazgulyyev
Courses Plus Student 5,798 Points
Suleyman Orazgulyyev
Suleyman Orazgulyyev
Courses Plus Student 5,798 Points

I'm glad it helped :) happy coding!

Patrick Munemo
Patrick Munemo
14,892 Points
Patrick Munemo
Patrick Munemo
14,892 Points

loadPuppiesButton.setText(buttonLabel);

chelaru adrian
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chelaru adrian
Courses Plus Student 2,229 Points
chelaru adrian
chelaru adrian
Courses Plus Student 2,229 Points

I just thing this is a badly formulated question. God a few of these in the Java Data Structure as well.