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Android

Posted by James Lowry
James Lowry
7,975 Points

Interactive Story challenge question: mSpaceship to Spaceship help.

First here is the url for the question: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-an-interactive-story-app/finishing-the-user-interface/using-a-model-in-the-controller

this is the additional code I've written(which is directly after insert code here):

mSpaceship = new Spaceship(); mSpaceship("FIREFLY");

I tells me you are setting mSpaceship in the onCreate method. Any help getting me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thanks!

1 Answer

Jon Kussmann
Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 Points

Hello,

One part of your Spaceship.java file contains:

public Spaceship(String type) {
      mType = type;
    }

This means that one of the constructors for the Spaceship class accepts a String as a parameter, which will then be used to set the mType for that object.

So, when you want to instantiate the mSpaceship object, you can pass in a String which will be set as the type like so:

mSpaceship = new Spaceship("FIREFLY");

The type for mSpaceship will now be "FIREFLY" and you wouldn't have needed to call a "setType()" method in a second line.