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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) Intents and Multiple Activities Using String Resources

Posted by Bahez Mohammad
Bahez Mohammad
Courses Plus Student 506 Points

How to set button Label variable to the new String resource using getString(int id) challenge task 2 of 3

How to set button Label variable to the new String resource using getString(int id) challenge task 2 of 3 Please help

CodeChallenge.java 
Button loadPuppiesButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.puppiesButton);
String buttonLabel = getString(R.string.name);
loadPuppiesButton.setText(buttonLabel);
strings.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="morePuppies">See More Puppies</string>
</resources>

1 Answer

Jens Hagfeldt
Jens Hagfeldt
16,548 Points
Jens Hagfeldt
Jens Hagfeldt
16,548 Points

Hi Bahez

In task 2 of the challenge you were asked: "Now switch back to CodeChallenge.java. Set the buttonLabel variable to the new String resource you just added using the getString(int id) method. Don't forget: the id parameter will begin with R.string."

And remember we set the name of our string to "morePuppies, so that is the name of the string your trying to retrieve using the getString(int id) method... In other words replace "name" with "morePuppies" and you should be good to go :)

I hope this helped you a bit... keep coding!

/ Jens