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Android

David Drees
David Drees
9,219 Points
Posted by David Drees
David Drees
9,219 Points

Code Challenge: All About @string Resources, Task 5 [SOLVED]

Hello Forum,

I'm failing to get past the final code challenge titled "All About @string Resources." Here is the error:

Bummer! Compilation Error!

And here is my code

Resources resources = getResources();
phoneNumberLabels = resources.getStringArray(R.array.phoneNumbers);
//String[] phoneNumberLabels = { "-home", "-work", "-mobile" };

Button saveButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.saveButton);
String label = getString(R.string.saveLabel);
saveButton.setText(label);

The prompt is:

Update the 'phoneNumbers' variable to get its values from strings.xml instead of those already present in the code. First you need a Resources object using the 'getResources()' method and then call 'getStringArray()' from the 'resources' variable.

I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong. A nudge in the right direction would be appreciated!

Thanks, David

5 Answers

David Kaneshiro Jr.
David Kaneshiro Jr.
29,247 Points
David Kaneshiro Jr.
David Kaneshiro Jr.
29,247 Points

David,

You still need to include 'String[]' in your phoneNumberLabels declaration.

David Drees
David Drees
9,219 Points
David Drees
David Drees
9,219 Points

Thanks! I will try it out now.

Choong Kim
Choong Kim
3,359 Points
Choong Kim
Choong Kim
3,359 Points

this worked but it only worked upon removing "protect" from my declaration. In other words, I had initially declared my variable phoneNumbers as so:

protected String[] phoneNumbers;

and changed it to:

String[] phoneNumbers;

I was wondering why including protect in the declaration yields a compilation error. Thanks!

David Kaneshiro Jr.
David Kaneshiro Jr.
29,247 Points
David Kaneshiro Jr.
David Kaneshiro Jr.
29,247 Points

You have to remember that this is only a code challenge so the answer it is looking for is usually going to be code that it is expecting. Even though adding 'protected' in front of the array declaration may work in XCode the challenge isn't expecting the 'protected' key word to be there. That's probably why there was a compilation error.

Juan Gallardo
Juan Gallardo
1,567 Points
Juan Gallardo
Juan Gallardo
1,567 Points

The String[] was missing in the second line. The full answer is:

Resources resources = getResources();
String[] phoneNumberLabels = resources.getStringArray(R.array.phoneNumbers);

Button saveButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.saveButton);
String label = getString(R.string.saveLabel);
saveButton.setText(label);
Rajesh Mule
Rajesh Mule
2,125 Points
Rajesh Mule
Rajesh Mule
2,125 Points

Resources resources = getResources(); phoneNumberLabels = resources.getStringArray(R.array.phoneNumbers);

Juan Gallardo
Juan Gallardo
1,567 Points

This does not work.

Lara Drobig
Lara Drobig
5,980 Points
Lara Drobig
Lara Drobig
5,980 Points

Hey,

your need to add the whole getRescources() method.So it's getResources().getStringArray(R.array.phoneNumbers)

Juan Gallardo
Juan Gallardo
1,567 Points

Your answer is a little incomplete. Did you mean that the top 2 lines are 

Resources resources = getResources();
phoneNumberLabels = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.phoneNumbers)

because that did not work