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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Improving Our Code Adding More Colors

Nephi Cosuga
Nephi Cosuga
1,907 Points

Error:(24, 41) error: cannot find symbol class ColorWheel I cant figure out why this wont work as in the video.

trying to make different colors for the funfacts activity but ColorWheel is not working.

public class FunFactsActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

        private FactBook mFactBook = new FactBook();
        private ColorWheel mColorWheel = new ColorWheel();
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_fun_facts);

        //Declare our View variables and assign them the Views from the layout file
        final TextView factlable = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.factTextView);
        Button showFactButton= (Button) findViewById(R.id.showFactButton);
        final RelativeLayout relativeLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.relativeLayout);
        View.OnClickListener listener = new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
               String fact = mFactBook.getFact();
            //Update the label with our dynamic fact
            factlable. setText(fact);

            int color = mColorWheel.getColor();
                relativeLayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);



            }
        };
        showFactButton.setOnClickListener(listener);
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points

What's the code for ColorWheel? And what is its source file named?

Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

//edited for markup

1 Answer

Michael Riehl
Michael Riehl
725 Points

I had the same issue until I deleted out the last part of the line on the main activity and then re-added it with autocomplete. I am not sure why this worked because it appears to be the same.

private ColorWheel mColorWheel = new ColorWheel();

I began deleting Colorwheel(); and then started typing it again and used the autocomplete. The code compiled and ran properly after that.