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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) User Input Getting Text from an EditText

Candice Wheeler
Candice Wheeler
919 Points
Posted by Candice Wheeler
Candice Wheeler
919 Points

not understanding what they me asking me to do

Im a little confuse about the question?

CodeChallenge.java 
EditText petNameField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.petNameField);
String petName;
adamabdulghani
adamabdulghani
7,864 Points

Hi Candice, please post the question so we could better help you. Thanks.

1 Answer

Daniel Babbev
Daniel Babbev
10,354 Points
Daniel Babbev
Daniel Babbev
10,354 Points

The question is -"The code below sets an EditText variable from the layout of an Activity. Set the petName variable to the value from this EditText".

What you should do is assign the data from the EditText variable to a String. We do this by calling two methods. getText(), which returns a Editable and toString(), which coverts the Editable an returns a string . You final expression should look like:

EditText petNameField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.petNameField);
String petName = petNameField .getText().toString();