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Android Build a Self-Destructing Message Android App Sending Messages Sending the Message

Posted by Rohit Sriram
Rohit Sriram
4,235 Points

CodeChallenge problem

For some reason the editor will not accept my answer. It asks me to make a String description, and put the value of an EditText member variable int called mDescriptionField. My answer was String description = mDescriptionField.toString(); However, it gave me an error saying Bummer! Make sure you get the text from the EditText variable! I do not understand why it gives me this error as I believe this is what I have done. Can somebody please tell me if there is a problem in my code, or how you fixed it.

Ankit B
Ankit B
4,180 Points

Do you want to post the screenshot of the question?

2 Answers

Rohit Sriram
Rohit Sriram
4,235 Points
Rohit Sriram
Rohit Sriram
4,235 Points

Never mind that. I figured out that I needed to add getText() to mDescriptionField.toString().

Rohit Sriram
Rohit Sriram
4,235 Points
Rohit Sriram
Rohit Sriram
4,235 Points

import android.app.Activity; import android.widget.EditText; import android.widget.Toast; import com.parse.ParseException; import com.parse.ParseObject; import com.parse.SaveCallback;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

protected EditText mDescriptionField;

protected SaveCallback mSaveCallback = new SaveCallback() {
    @Override
    public void done(ParseException e) {
        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Item saved!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
};

// Some code omitted!

public void save() {
    ParseObject task = new ParseObject("Task");
  String description = mDescriptionField.toString();
}

}

//this is code

The description of the to-do item is stored in the EditText member variable. Declare a string named description and store the value from the EditText in it. Bummer! Make sure you get the text from the EditText variable!

//this is instructions and error