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Android Build a Self-Destructing Message Android App Sending Messages Sending the Message

Alex Park
Alex Park
7,567 Points
Posted by Alex Park
Alex Park
7,567 Points

How to put the description string in the ParseObject using the key "description".

public void save() { ParseObject Task = new ParseObject("Task"); String description = mDescriptionField.getText().toString(); Task,put(description, description);

}

What's wrong with this part? Isn't is parseobject name . put (key, value) ; ?

4 Answers

Dominic Penfold
Dominic Penfold
8,194 Points
Dominic Penfold
Dominic Penfold
8,194 Points

Task.put("description", description);

Alex Park
Alex Park
7,567 Points
Alex Park
Alex Park
7,567 Points

It still doesn't work...

André Sanna Taylor
André Sanna Taylor
2,612 Points
André Sanna Taylor
André Sanna Taylor
2,612 Points

you did :

Task,put(description, description); ^ just put a dot.

Alessandro Lazzarin
Alessandro Lazzarin
8,367 Points
Alessandro Lazzarin
Alessandro Lazzarin
8,367 Points

mSave.put("description", description);

Ginger Ranslam
Ginger Ranslam
8,156 Points
Ginger Ranslam
Ginger Ranslam
8,156 Points

ParseObject.put("description", description);