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Android Build a Simple Android App Improving Our Code Simple Refactoring: Using a New Class

Posted by yadin michaeli
yadin michaeli
Courses Plus Student 5,423 Points

confused about the return

hi...im a little confused here...why we return fact? don't we to return getfact string?

1 Answer

Ben Deitch
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Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher

Nope, 'getFact' is a function that returns an object of type String. Inside the 'getFact' function we declare a new String object named 'fact'. Then we populate that 'fact' object with a new fun fact, and finally we return our 'fact' object!