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Android Build a Simple Android App (retired 2014) Shaking Things Up The Activity Lifecycle

Posted by Junaid Shaikh
Junaid Shaikh
Courses Plus Student 1,533 Points

Inside the 'onCreate()' method of MainActivity, add a line of code to execute the 'onCreate()' method of the parent, or

what to do in this part please help ......i cant understand what the question means???

1 Answer

J Andrew Scott
J Andrew Scott
30,626 Points

It's looking for something like this.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // your line goes here
    }
}

MainActivity is inheriting from Activity so the question wants you to call super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);. That will run Activity's onCreate() code before carrying on with the rest of MainActivity's code.