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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Coding the Fun Facts Properties of Arrays

facts variable

Error:(43, 59) error: local variable facts is accessed from within inner class; needs to be declared final

Can you show your code, please?

Steve.

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2 Answers

I don't really know what the cause of this is. However, if you type final in front of the declaration of the facts array, that might solve it. It would look like:

final String[] facts = { ...

Thank you, i solved the error

The string must be declare in onClick method (before i was in onCreate)