Adding Sounds ERROR Crystal Ball has stopped.

Thanks but that gave me another error :/ It says R can't be resolved to a variable

Try to clean the project to regenerate R file and check if the res folder doesn't contain any error (sometimes errors in that folder break the R regeneration process).

Okay, that's progress! That means there's an error somewhere in your res directory. Do any files have a little red x in the Package Explorer? Does the crystal_ball.mp3 file show up in there?

I have a red x in a lot of things ill tell you all of them

src com.example.crystalball mainactivity.java mainactivity Everything under main activity and on values and styles.xml this is just so crazy because a day ago everything worked near perfect! thanks for all the help ben and guillaume

https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/crystal-ball-misc-errors-cont feel free to help me when you get a chance Ben Jakuben

http://gyazo.com/aad7b46465bd1db92179b23183f7bfc1

Your screenshot is missing the appcompat_v7 folder, which is required under the latest Android tools update. Did you intentionally or accidentally delete that?

thanks ben we are making progress I added that back and I got rid of the red x on the style xml now to fix this activity main :/

Okay, if the red x's are gone on the style files, then hopefully all you need to do is clean and rebuild again. You need to force the R class to be regenerated again now that everything in the res directory is error-free.

I know how to clean but how do you rebuild?

It's probably building automatically for you. If you clean, do you still get errors? If so, can you screenshot them again?

after cleaning nothing changed :/ http://gyazo.com/c3bde108c17262bb91e835d54b6a1b58 this is so strange i looked on google and its hard to find anyone with similar problems to me

You may need to add the appcompat library as a library project again. Right click on your project, go to Properties, then click on Android. The Library section at the bottom should contain a reference to appcompat_v7 with a green check mark. If it's missing or with a red x, add it back in using the Add button.

I have a green check mark.

Ah, I just caught it in your latest screenshot. At some point all your import statements were thrown out the window. Go back into MainActivity.java and hit Ctrl+Shift+O to organize your imports. That should pull everything in that you need.

http://gyazo.com/577de8b5dca79cc6557b76dc96e89f6f errors went away for a quick second and then they came back, this is so frustrating

This may be silly, but that latest screenshot shows unsaved changes to MainActivity.java. Did you save it after reorganizing imports?

If you saved it and it still doesn't work, zip your project and email it to help@teamtreehouse.com and I can troubleshoot it locally.

Ben you are the man! It's always the little things haha. I really want to thank you so much for all your help. Due to this simple conversation i'm probably gonna stick with this website after my free trial! Have a great day, many thanks.

Haha - that's programming in a nutshell! They get fewer and fewer with more experience, but the little stuff still gets all of us.

Glad you had the patience to stick with it. Hopefully it'll be smooth sailing now as you go along. :)

Please don't hate me haha I have 0 errors but when I try to run the app it still crashes here is my updated code

package com.example.crystalball;

import android.graphics.drawable.AnimationDrawable;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.media.MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.animation.AlphaAnimation;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

    private CrystalBall mCrystalBall = new CrystalBall();
    private TextView mAnswerLabel;
    private Button mGetAnswerButton;
    private ImageView mCrystalBallImage;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // Assign the Views from the layout file
        mAnswerLabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        mGetAnswerButton= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
        mCrystalBallImage.setImageResource(R.drawable.ball_animation);

        mGetAnswerButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String answer = mCrystalBall.getAnAnswer();

                // Update the label with out dynamic answer
                mAnswerLabel.setText(answer);

                animateCrystalBall();
                animateAnswer();
                playSound();
            }
        });
    }

    private void animateCrystalBall() {
        AnimationDrawable ballAnimation = (AnimationDrawable) mCrystalBallImage.getDrawable();
        if (ballAnimation.isRunning()) {
            ballAnimation.stop();
        }
        ballAnimation.start();
    }

    private void animateAnswer() {
        AlphaAnimation fadeinAnimation = new AlphaAnimation(0, 1);
        fadeinAnimation.setDuration(1500);
        fadeinAnimation.setFillAfter(true);

        mAnswerLabel.setAnimation(fadeinAnimation);
    }

    private void playSound() {
        MediaPlayer player = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.crystal_ball);
        player.start();
        player.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {

            public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
                mp.release();
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main,menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

Can you create a new post and paste in this code and the new errors you are getting? When the app crashes it should log errors in the logcat tab at the bottom of Eclipse. Check that and let us know what it says in the new post. (This one is getting too messy. )

Ben Jakuben just made a new post https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/crystal-ball-misc-errors-cont

Use backticks ` instead of single quotes. :)

http://gyazo.com/e702e2a1aaf53cc9609f7107dcd516a0

Oups my mistake ! wrong view instead of Error log view show the Problems view and filter to show only errors. Sorry.

http://gyazo.com/60c91da47f51923f0e646d5895df36d3

didn't change anything

many times

Follow this setup: https://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/setup.html > Section Adding libraries with resources

done didnt fix anything

Do you have the same directory tree http://gyazo.com/5341ef84196f8b768ae93320aa3b10b3 ?

Make sure "player" variable is properly initialize (but as I see its initialize) I don't know if the virtual device has an option to enable it maybe check if the app need some permission to play a sound (I don't think so).