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

vince hoyt
vince hoyt
1,423 Points

Since adding the array[facts] it is grayed out, and when I tried to add facts.length, facts is red, wont be recognized

Here is the code starting with the declaration of the array, to applying it in the nextInt(facts.length); Am I missing something here, because when i add in facts..length like every thing past that gets a red underline and the word facts becomes red.

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);
vince hoyt
vince hoyt
1,423 Points

Nevermind, upon pasting this and reading it over i realized that I had an extra curly bracket in that was mucking things up!

1 Answer

Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points

Glad to hear you fixed it!

I'll mark this post as resolved now so that other users know that this question has been solved!