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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) User Input Getting Text from an EditText

Vechnet makuyana
Vechnet makuyana
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Posted by Vechnet makuyana
Vechnet makuyana
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Set the petName variable to the value from this EditText.

Were am I going wrong, I had completed this task already and I am doing the same thing I was did on that one but I keep getting compiler error

CodeChallenge.java 
EditText petNameField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.petNameField);
String petName = petNameField.getpetName().toString();

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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! You're really close here but you should be using the method getText() to get the text in the text field. There is no method named getpetName. Take a look:

String petName = petNameField.getText().toString();

This will access the TextField we have set up and get the text from it and make it into a string. The result is assigned back into the variable petName.

Hope this helps! :sparkles: