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Android Android Activity Lifecycle The Activity Lifecycle Saving and Retrieving Instance State

Yuri Arons
Yuri Arons
7,281 Points

HELP !~ can't get the last parameter

Help me !!

MainActivity.java
import android.content.Intent;
import android.view.View;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

  public TextView mTextView;
  private static final String  KEY_USERENTRY = "KEY_USERENTRY";

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    mTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
  }

    @Override
    protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
        super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);

      outState.putString(KEY_USERENTRY,????????????? );

    }

    @Override
    protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);

    }
}

1 Answer

Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

The challenge says to save the number 10 to the bundle. So 10 will be the second parameter. But this isn't a String but rather an int. So you would use putInt()

 outState.putInt(KEY_USERENTRY, 10);