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

Scott Jaworski
Scott Jaworski
3,019 Points

Telling me the variable "facts" is never used.

I've set the string, gotten facts.length, and then set fact = facts[randonNumber];. It's saying that facts is declared but never used. What?

    View.OnClickListener listener = new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    //Create an Array [] indicate that this will be an array. elements of
                    //arrays are on per line.
                    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.",
                            "Everyone is out to get you.",
                            "On average, it takes 66 days to form a new habit.",
                            "Mammoths still walked the earth when the Great Pyramid was being built.",
                            "treehouse is not actually in a tree"};
                    }
                // The button was clicked, so update the fact label with a new fact.
                    //create a string called fact and assign it a blank string "";
                    String fact = "";
                    // create a variable called randomGenerator, make it new Random
                    Random randomGenerator = new Random(); //Contruct a new Random Number Generator
                    // take randomNumber and assign a random integer from RandomGenerator up to, but excluding 3
                    int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(facts.length);

                    fact = facts[randomNumber];
                    //Update the label with our dynamic fact
                    factLabel.setText(fact);

            };

1 Answer

Scott Jaworski
Scott Jaworski
3,019 Points

Solved! Had an extra curly bracket below my Array.