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Android

Posted by Murat Hasdemir
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Murat Hasdemir
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 20,968 Points

Challenge Task 2 of 3 Let's add the same Intent flags from the video to flag this new activity as a new task and to cle

I'n not sure whats going on here I try this code on Android Studio it works like it has to be but at web site editor gives this error can anyone help with this

 import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;

public class CodeChallengeActivity extends Activity {

    // Some code has been omitted
  Intent intent = new Intent(this, CommentActivity.class);
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);

    public void addComment() {

    }
}

./CodeChallengeActivity.java:8: error:  expected
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                       ^
./CodeChallengeActivity.java:8: error:  expected
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                                                     ^
./CodeChallengeActivity.java:9: error:  expected
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
                       ^
./CodeChallengeActivity.java:9: error:  expected
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
                                                       ^
./CodeChallengeActivity.java:8: error: cannot find symbol
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                              ^
  symbol:   class FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK
  location: class Intent
./CodeChallengeActivity.java:8: error: package intent does not exist
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
              ^
./CodeChallengeActivity.java:9: error: cannot find symbol
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
                              ^
  symbol:   class FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK
  location: class Intent
./CodeChallengeActivity.java:9: error: package intent does not exist
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
              ^
8 errors
james white
james white
78,399 Points

You may want to take a look at this other forum thread for some helpful info: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/adding-intent-flags-error

I actually had more trouble with Challenge 3 of 3:

"Challenge Task 3 of 3

Now all you need to do is start the activity!"

I kept using

"StartActivity(intent);"

...and after staring at the parse error for a while.

(gotta love those demonically-red colored cryptic parse errors),

/*
./CodeChallengeActivity.java:12: error: cannot find symbol
      StartActivity(intent);
      ^
  symbol:   method StartActivity(Intent)
  location: class CodeChallengeActivity
1 error
*/

..............

I finally realized my typing error:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;

public class CodeChallengeActivity extends Activity {

    // Some code has been omitted

    public void addComment() {
      Intent intent = new Intent(this, CommentActivity.class);
      intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
      intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
      startActivity(intent);
    }
}