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Shelby Kessel
Courses Plus Student 1,482 PointsAnimating the Crystal Ball
Hello I was wondering if anyone could help me out, I'm stuck on the first task of the "Animating the Crystal Ball" challenge and I've re-watched the video I don't know how many times now but I'm pretty sure I keep looking over something but anyways this is the task "Define a method called 'animateFrog()' and put the existing line of code that declares the 'frogImage' variable inside the curly braces of the new method. Make the method public, return nothing (void), and have no parameters." this is what I have package com.example;
import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.ImageView; import android.graphics.drawable.AnimationDrawable;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
public void animateFrog(){
ImageView frogImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.frog);
frogImage.setImageResource();
AnimationDrawable frogAnimation = (AnimationDrawable) frogImage.getDrawable();
}
} I figure I'm missing something but I cannot figure it out, I don't know if this will help anyone but I keep getting a Compilation Error when I try to complete the task so I thought the code might have been in the wrong area so I have tried it outside of the main activity class just to see and have gotten the same error so if anyone could help me, I would very much appreciate it :).
8 Answers
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherThis is a scenario where a full-fledged IDE like Eclipse makes this easy to solve. 
But this is a simple case of a missing curly brace. You need to end your onCreate method before starting your animateFrog method, which means you just need to add a right curly brace } before starting your animateFrog method. I don't want to just paste in the solution, so hopefully that spells it out for you!
Shelby Kessel
Courses Plus Student 1,482 PointsThank You very much Ben, I can't believe I didn't see that before haha, I really appreciate your help! :)
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherGlad to help! Sometimes fresh eyes is all it takes!
Andy Berragan
258 PointsI too am stuck on this problem and cannot seem to find a solution. This is what I have down:
@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); }
public void animateFrog() { ImageView frogImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.frog); frogImage.setImageResource(); AnimationDrawable frogAnimation = (AnimationDrawable) frogImage.getDrawable(); }
}
If anyone could help that would be great. Thanks
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherHi @Nigel,
Delete the 2nd line in your animateFrog() method (frogImage.setImageResource();) and you should be good to go.
Matthew Taylor
663 PointsNeed help with this as well, can't seem to complete
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
public void animateFrog() {
ImageView frogImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.frogImage);
frogImage.setImageResource();
AnimationDrawable frogAnimation = (AnimationDrawable) frogImage.getDrawable();
}
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherHi Matthew,
The same hint above looks like it will apply here. You don't need that setImageResource() call in there. :)
Matthew Taylor
663 PointsThanks Ben
Andy Berragan
258 PointsIt works great. Thank you!
Keiley Neill
423 PointsI'm so lost, I keep getting recheck work whenever I submit this no matter how many changes I put it through. I have watched the video 8 times making sure to pause and let it sink in. I've even read through the problems of previous people and can't find out the answer.Here's what I have thus far.
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
public void animateFrog() {
ImageView frogImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.frog);
frogImage.setImageResource();
AnimationDrawable frogAnimation = frogImage.getDrawable();
}
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherHi Keiley,
Looks like copying and pasting code from in here is causing problems! Disregard the other code you see in this post as none of these solutions will work for you.
With your code, you have two problems:
- You don't need that 'setImageResource()' call in there.
- Compare the name of your
AnimationDrawablevariable with the name that is specified in the instructions: "Inside animateFrog(), declare an AnimationDrawable variable named 'jumpAnimation'."
Joe Laird
2,515 Points[pic](C:\Users\Joey\Desktop\test.png "Test")
Joe Laird
2,515 Points[test](C:\Users\Joey\Desktop\test.png "Title")