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Start your free trialanirudh erabelly
Courses Plus Student 1,122 PointsWhy did we use isBoolean??
I'm unable to understand why did he use boolean isBoolean in the video tutorial for Page Class Constructor??
anirudh erabelly
Courses Plus Student 1,122 PointsThank you for answering my question so,patiently!! I understood everything except the declaration of boolean value "mISFinal".
Kane Stoboi
21,919 PointsThe declaration of a boolean object is much the same as any other other object.
Here is the code from the video
private boolean mIsFinal = false;
private: sets the member variable to be only accessible inside the class
boolean: declares that the object that is being created is a boolean object
mIsFinal: sets the variable name
false: Like any data type, boolean objects can contain a value. For a String object the value can be all types of characters enclosed in quote marks. Boolean data types can only have two possible values (true or false). In this case the Boolean is given a default value of false for every card. If the constructor is only given an 'imageId' or a 'text' value the page created must be one of the final cards therefore the value of mIsFinal changed to true meaning that it is a final card with no more choices available
Hugo Leon
7,763 PointsHugo Leon
7,763 PointsHello Anirudh!
I'm on my way to learn more Java for Android so I'm not sure if my answer might help. But here it is.
I think in the video says that you have 7 pages in your app (0 to 6), and the number 5 and 6 have no choices to make anymore as the Story Map says. At your first Page Class constructor you have 4 parameters imageId, text, choice1 and choice2. Since you need pages without choices for the last 5 and 6) you need a custom Page constructor with only 2 parameters: imageId and text.
Into this custom constructor you need to initialize mChoice1 and mChoice2 to null because you will have no choices anymore, and a new boolean variable (mIsFinal) set to true.
Hope I've answered your question :)
Good luck with your courses!.