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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Coding the Fun Facts Properties of Arrays

Carlos R Q
Carlos R Q
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Only display one fact after ants fact... why?

After writing the code from the class, I use the emulator , and when click the button only display the ostriches fact.

I've already clean and rebuild the project. I've check the code, and even go to previous lessons to display only the randomNumber but even when I put to display fact = randonNumber + "" after I click to button it does not show me numbers, but only the ostriches fact.

Does anyone know why is this happening, or have a done sth wrong in my code?

public class FunFactsActivity extends Activity {

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

    //Declare our view variables and assign them to the Views from the layout
    final TextView factLabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.factTextView);
    Button showFactButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.showFactButton);
    View.OnClickListener listener = new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {

           final String [] facts = {"Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.",
                    "Ostriches can run faster than horses.",
                    "Olympic gold medals are actually made mostly of silver.",
                    "You are born with 300 bones; by the time you are an adult you will have 206.",
                    "It takes about 8 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Earth.",
                    "Some bamboo plants can grow almost a meter in just one day.",
                    "The state of Florida is bigger than England.",
                    "Some penguins can leap 2-3 meters out of the water.",
                    "On average, it takes 66 days to form a new habit.",
                    "Mammoths still walked the earth when the Great Pyramid was being built."
                    };

            //the button was clicked , so update the fact label with a new fact
            String fact = "";
            //Randomly select a fact
            Random randomGenerator = new Random(); // Construct a new Random number generator
            int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(facts.length);

            /*fact = randomNumber + "";*/

            fact = facts[randomNumber];

            //Update the label with our dynamic fact
            factLabel.setText(fact);
        }
    };
    showFactButton.setOnClickListener(listener);


}