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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) Finishing the User Interface Formatting Strings

Posted by Abhinav Raj
Abhinav Raj
2,697 Points

Name is not getting replaced/shown in the app

Name is not replacing the placeholders placed in the story here is snippet of my loadpage() method please help

 private void loadPage()
{
        Page page=mStory.getPage(0);
        Drawable drawable = ResourcesCompat.getDrawable(getResources(),   page.getImageId(), null);
        String pageText=page.getText();
        pageText=String.format(pageText,mName);
        mTextView.setText(pageText);
        mImageView.setImageDrawable(drawable);
        mTextView.setText(page.getText());
        mchoice1.setText(page.getchoice1().getText());
        mchoice2.setText(page.getchoice2().getText());

    }

1 Answer

John Shankland
John Shankland
1,973 Points
John Shankland
John Shankland
1,973 Points

Abhinav,

you are calling setText on mTextView twice. Once with the formatted String pageText and then again with the text from the page object.