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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Improving Our Code Adding More Colors

Cannot Resolve Symbol getColor

Here is my code from ColorWheel

    public int getColor() {

        // The button was clicked, so update the fact label with a new fact.
        String color = "";
        // Randomly select a fact
        Random randomGenerator = new Random(); // Construct a new random number generator
        int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(mColors.length);

        color = mColors[randomNumber];
        int colorAsInt = Color.parseColor(color);

        return colorAsInt;
    }
}

And here is the code from FunFactsActivity.java

 View.OnClickListener listener = new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                String fact = mFactBook.getFact();
                factLabel.setText(fact);
                int color = mColorWheel.getColor;
                relativeLayout.setBackgroundColor(color);
                showFactButton.setTextColor(color);
            }
        };

On the line int color = mColorWheel.getColor; there is an error on getColor that says Cannot resolve symbol getColor. I thought it was due to an import statement but I have already imported android.graphics.Color;

2 Answers

Joe, because your calling a method from the class colorwheel you have to use () i.e.

int color = mColorWheel.getColor();

in your .OnClickListener listener

Rebecca Rich
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Rebecca Rich
Courses Plus Student 8,592 Points

Is mColorWheel a ColorWheel object? If so, try int color = mColorWheel.getColor();

getColor() is an object method, so it must be called on an instance of an object and it must include the () for the method call.