Return type?

Question

Hello

I'm stuck on this challenge, i'm doing what it tells me to do but I get an error anyway:

./GameAdapter.java:29: error: invalid method declaration; return type required
      public HourViewHolder(View itemView) {
             ^
1 error

Code:

GameAdapter.java

public class GameAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<GameAdapter.GameViewHolder> {

    private Game[] mGames;

    public GameAdapter(Game[] games) {
        mGames = games;
    }

    @Override
    public GameViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(GameViewHolder holder, int position) {
        // code omitted for brevity
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return 0;
    }

    /* Add your code here */

    public class GameViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
      public TextView mTitleLabel;

      public HourViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        mTitleLabel = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.titleLabel);
      }
    }
}

Please help!

Answer 1 · 2016-07-18T04:45:30Z

July 18, 2016 4:45am

The problem is what is supposed to be your constructor in the innerclass GameViewHolder:

 public HourViewHolder(View itemView) {
    super(itemView);
    mTitleLabel = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.titleLabel);
}

A constructor should have the same name as the class, it is a constructor for, in this case GameViewHolder. Therefore the solution would be:

 public GameViewHolder(View itemView) {
    super(itemView);
    mTitleLabel = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.titleLabel);
}

When you do not use the correct name, the Java compiler assumes it is a ordinary method and if it was a ordinary method, a return type was needed.

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