Error parseColor(color)

Hey Brandon Ashcraft and Jeremy Daines!

I've managed to reproduce your issue on API 23 and here's how to solve it:

Go ahead and remove the initializing line and move the String type to its definition:

// Remove this: String color = "";
String color = mColors[randomNumber];
// ^ Add String keyword here.

So now, why is this happening? Well, it looks like in the latest build tools, Android Studio is getting a little confused and thinks because when we initialize the color String, it has no length (It is an empty string) and that the code will not work. However, we are actually setting the value later on so it should in fact work and it does.

If we run the project with the error, you'll notice that everything works fine, that's because it should do. For whatever reason, in the latest build tools it flags this code up as an error.

Hope this helps and I'll tag Ben Jakuben here to take a look at the issue. Perhaps a Teacher Note would help out here since this is a Beginner course :)

package info.cyberdlearning.funfact;

import java.util.Random;

public class ColorWheel { private String[] mColorWheel= { "#39add1", // light blue "#3079ab", // dark blue "#c25975", // mauve "#e15258", // red "#f9845b", // orange "#838cc7", // lavender "#7d669e", // purple "#53bbb4", // aqua "#51b46d", // green "#e0ab18", // mustard "#637a91", // dark gray "#f092b0", // pink "#b7c0c7" // light gray };

public int getColor(){

    //select a random color
    Random randomGenerator= new Random();
    int randomNumber= randomGenerator.nextInt(mColorWheel.length);
    String color= mColorWheel[randomNumber];
    int colorAsInt = color.parsecolor(color);
    return colorAsInt;
}

}

guys just set, String Color; tats it..... instead of writing, String Color = ""; it means variable from parseColor thinks that the color shold be choose from 1 or 0 because of the string which we intiaized.