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Android

Posted by Terence Evans
Terence Evans
1,870 Points

In "Build An Interactive Story" In the "Adding a 2nd Activity" the Action button does nothing for me.

In "Build An Interactive Story" In the "Adding a 2nd Activity" the Action button does nothing for me. I have tried to follow what was showing in the video lesson. Maybe it stems back to my unresolved problem in my MainActivity where the mStartButton is highlighted in orange ie. private Button mStartButton; When I hover over it i get a message about the field can be converted to local variable. I also note that the last message in my logcat is: eglSurfaceAttrib not implemented

Daniel Hartin
Daniel Hartin
18,106 Points

Hi Terence

Any chance you could post your code here please, it's hard to see what the problem is without it. Hopefully we can come up with a solution then.

Thanks Daniel

2 Answers

Terence Evans
Terence Evans
1,870 Points
Terence Evans
Terence Evans
1,870 Points

I did in my most recent post, but here goes again: package com.example.twesq.interactivestory;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;


public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    private EditText mNameField;
    private Button mStartButton;

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

        mNameField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.nameEditText);
        mStartButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.startButton);

        mStartButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String name = mNameField.getText().toString();
                startStory();


            }
        });
    }

    private void startStory() {
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, StoryActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

Thanks

Terence Evans
Terence Evans
1,870 Points

I was asked to check a "best answer", but can't because I am still stuck with my problem. Is there anybody who can help me with my problem?

Daniel Hartin
Daniel Hartin
18,106 Points
Daniel Hartin
Daniel Hartin
18,106 Points

Hi Terence

Your code looks fine to me. It should start the storyActivity class. Other things to consider are have you got the correct id for the button? Does the storyActivity exist? And is the storyActivity defined as an activity in the manifest?

Terence Evans
Terence Evans
1,870 Points

Thanks Daniel. I have been so discouraged that I haven't looked at this in almost 2 weeks.

  1. I don't know if I have the correct ID for the button. How can I tell this?
  2. I do have a tab with a little light-blue dot with a "c" in it that is titled "Story Activity.java"
  3. I don't know if the storyActivity is defined as an activity in the manifest. How can I check this?