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Android

Posted by jake jake
jake jake
Courses Plus Student 812 Points

I'm trying to figure out how to stop my app from crashing

I'm building a math app and every time I run my app if I leave one of the EditText lines blank the app crashes I tried to use if statements but I cant get it to work

public void OnButtonClick(View v) {

        final EditText e1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num1);
        final EditText e2 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num2);
        final EditText e3 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num3);
        final EditText e4 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num4);
        final EditText e5 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num5);
        final EditText e6 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num6);
        final EditText e7 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num7);
        final EditText e8 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num8);
        final EditText e9 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num9);
        final EditText e10 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.num10);
        final TextView t1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.sum);

        Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
        button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override   public void onClick(View v) {
                int n1;
                int n2;
                int n3;
                int n4;
                int n5;
                int n6;
                int n7;
                int n8;
                int n9;
                int n10;
                double thesum;
                double x;
                String total;


                int[] n = new int[10];
                for (int i = 0; i < n.length; ++i) n[i] = 0;

                n1 = Integer.parseInt(e1.getText().toString());
                if (e1.getText().toString().isEmpty())
                  n1 = Integer.parseInt(e1.getText().toString());
                n2 = Integer.parseInt(e2.getText().toString());
                if (e2.getText().toString().equals(""))
                    n2 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                n3 = Integer.parseInt(e3.getText().toString());
                if (e3.getText().toString().equals(""))
                    n3 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                n4 = Integer.parseInt(e4.getText().toString());
                if (e4.getText().toString().equals(""))
                    n4 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                n5 = Integer.parseInt(e5.getText().toString());
                if (e5.getText().toString().equals(""))
                    n5 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                n6 = Integer.parseInt(e6.getText().toString());
                if (e6.getText().toString().equals(""))
                    n6 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                n7 = Integer.parseInt(e7.getText().toString());
                if (e7.getText().toString().equals(""))
                    n7 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                n8 = Integer.parseInt(e8.getText().toString());
                if (e8.getText().toString().equals(""))
                    n8 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                n9 = Integer.parseInt(e9.getText().toString());
                if (e9.getText().toString().equals(""))
                    n9 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                n10 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                if (e10.getText().toString().equals(""))
                    n10 = Integer.parseInt(e10.getText().toString());
                try {
                    x = ((n1 - n2 - n3 - n4 - n5 - n6 - n7) / (double) (n8 + n9 + n10));
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    x = 00.00;
                }
                thesum = (x * 100);
                DecimalFormat form = new DecimalFormat("00.00");
                total = form.format(thesum) + "%";
                t1.setText(total);


            }
          }
        );
      }
    }
mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

Hi jake jake, I just wanted to give you a heads up that I modified your post a bit just to fix the code display formatting.

jake jake
jake jake
Courses Plus Student 812 Points

thank you!! I have been trying to figure this out for a while

1 Answer

miguelcastro2
miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points

The problem is that you are trying to cast the string to an integer when the line is blank and does not have a value to convert:

// This line will cause an error if e1 is empty
 n1 = Integer.parseInt(e1.getText().toString()); 
 if (e1.getText().toString().isEmpty())
n1 = Integer.parseInt(e1.getText().toString());

// Corrected
if (!e1.getText().toString().isEmpty()) {
    n1 = Integer.parseInt(e1.getText().toString());
}