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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Basic Android Programming Making a Button Do Something

Cassandra Gugoff
Cassandra Gugoff
600 Points
Posted by Cassandra Gugoff
Cassandra Gugoff
600 Points

Hello! I have entered the same exact thing that the video shows and am getting an error message of "Inconvertible types"

It says showFactButton never used

Karim Vally
Karim Vally
646 Points

What have you tried so far? (Post your code so i can help) and what are you trying to achieve ?

Cassandra Gugoff
Cassandra Gugoff
600 Points
Cassandra Gugoff
Cassandra Gugoff
600 Points

Button showFactButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.showFactButton);

Does this look right?

1 Answer

Karim Vally
Karim Vally
646 Points
Karim Vally
Karim Vally
646 Points

Your code looks correct however you're doing little errors, you have:

Button showFactButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.showFactButton);

Really, you should have:

Button newFactButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.showFactButton);

The reason why you're getting an error is simply because you're naming your new button "showFactButton" and then your trying to find the view by id called 'showFactButton" so in other words, you're basically setting the name of the button the same as the name of a button you're looking for as 'showFactButton' already exists so you shouldn't be trying to create a new one.

Hope this helps