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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Coding the Fun Facts Properties of Arrays

Cannot resolve symbol 'facts'

It seems to me, that everything is equal like in the video, but it doesn't recognize automatically facts, and nether the length. Can anyone please help me? Thank you :) String fact = ""; //Randomly select a fact Random randomGenerator = new Random (); // Construct a new Random number generator int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(facts.length); /*Convert the randomNumber to a text fact *0 = Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. * 1 = Ostriches can run faster then horses. * 2 = Olympic gold medals are actualy made mostly of silver.

            */
            //if randomNumber equals 0 then
          fact = facts[randomNumber];

            //Update the label with our dynamic fact
            factLabel.setText(fact);
        }
    };
    showFactButton.setOnClickListener(Listener);

1 Answer

It says "missing symbol" because you don't have a "facts" array. There might have been a problem when you were copy-pasting the code or might be confusing "facts" with the String variable "fact" which contains an empty string.

Thank you very much for your quick answer, and I'm sorry I wasn't able to answer sooner. I've checked, but I think that everything is ok with the "facts" array: { String[] facts = { "Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.", But, down there, where I should write again> int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(facts.length); ... facts isn't recognized. I'm doing everything, like it's shown on the video, but on the video facts.lenegth gives automatic suggestions, and in my case gives back an error :(.