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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Exploring the Master-Detail Template Blog Reader Project Overview

Posted by artursjansons
artursjansons
2,173 Points

Challenge task 4 of 4 in Android development – Blog Reader Project Overview

Hello. In this task I do receive a message saying “The second parameter (“String message”) of the Log.d() method must equal the value specified in the instructions” and instruction states that I need to use the “message” variable as the second parameter. Please see the code below;

String title1 ="Android is awesome"; String title2 ="Mike is cool"; String title3 ="Treehouse loves me"; String[] titles = { title1, title2, title3 }; String message = ""; message = titles[1]; Log.d("CodeChallenge", "titles[1]");

Can anyone please tell me what am I doing wrong ?

8 Answers

Valery Kukatov
Valery Kukatov
6,996 Points
Valery Kukatov
Valery Kukatov
6,996 Points

Oh. Don't use quotes on message. Quotes turn it into a string basically.

Valery Kukatov
Valery Kukatov
6,996 Points
Valery Kukatov
Valery Kukatov
6,996 Points

May be the space between String[] and titles = [title1...] is what causing the error?

artursjansons
artursjansons
2,173 Points
artursjansons
artursjansons
2,173 Points

Hi,

Not quite. The line that causes the error is -- Log.d("CodeChallenge", "titles[1]") --. As a second variable i need to use "message" variable so i did, however it still gives me an error.

Valery Kukatov
Valery Kukatov
6,996 Points
Valery Kukatov
Valery Kukatov
6,996 Points

I'm guessing what it's actually saying... instead of actually typing 'titles[1]' , you need to type in 'message'

artursjansons
artursjansons
2,173 Points
artursjansons
artursjansons
2,173 Points

Thats what i thought at first however it still doesn't work. Any ideas ?

Valery Kukatov
Valery Kukatov
6,996 Points
Valery Kukatov
Valery Kukatov
6,996 Points

Let's format your code and take it slow.

String title1 ="Android is awesome"; 
String title2 ="Mike is cool"; 
String title3 ="Treehouse loves me";
 String[] titles = { title1, title2, title3 };     // Everything looks good till here.
String message = ""; message = titles[1];  /* I looked in the challenge and it 
doesn't ask to input String message as blank. 
Here you are assigning a blank message and then 
assigning to message to be something else. 
You are creating an unnecessary step  */
Log.d("CodeChallenge", "titles[1]"); // Here you need to just replace 'titles[1]' with String 'message'

This worked for me.

artursjansons
artursjansons
2,173 Points
artursjansons
artursjansons
2,173 Points

I'm clearly missing something. Sorry for being a pain but it still doesn't work for me, I've tried multiple times and variances, still nothing.

String title1 = "Android is awesome";
String title2 = "Mike is cool";
String title3 = "Treehouse loves me";
String[] titles = { title1, title2, title3 };
String message = titles[1];
Log.d("CodeChallenge", "message");

Thanks

artursjansons
artursjansons
2,173 Points
artursjansons
artursjansons
2,173 Points

OMG, i finally did it!

Thank you for your help, much appreciated.