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Android

Posted by Arnaud Schenk
Arnaud Schenk
Courses Plus Student 2,957 Points

All About @string Resources ADT discrepancies (solved)

EDIT: a quit and restart fixed it.

Hey,

I'm following the "Build a blog reader" course for android, and in the video named "All About @string Resources", they tell us about 10 minutes in about getStringArray.

I'm having issues with the parameter that we are asked to input. In the course, R.array.android_names is used, but in ADT, the "array" keyword throws an error. Is there a new way of doing this ?

Here is my code so far: 

package com.arnaudschenk.blogreader;

import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;

public class MainListActivity extends ListActivity {

        protected String[] mAndroidNames;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main_list);

        Resources resources = getResources();
        mAndroidNames = resources.getStringArray(R.array.android_names);


        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, mAndroidNames);
        setListAdapter(adapter);

        //String message = getString(R.string.no_items);
        //Toast.makeText(this, message, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    @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_list, menu);
        return true;
    }

}

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Glad to see you got this fixed. Sadly, sometimes restarting Eclipse is the best answer. :-/