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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Improving Our Code Creating a Class

Posted by megankirkland
megankirkland
663 Points

The syntax says that I am missing a return statement. Am I over looking something?

public class PictureBook {
  public String mTitle() {
  } 
}

1 Answer

Ethan Lowry
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Ethan Lowry
Courses Plus Student 7,323 Points
Ethan Lowry
Ethan Lowry
Courses Plus Student 7,323 Points

Just like it says, you are missing a return statement :)

Specifically, because you specified the String return type when creating your mTitle function, that means that function has to return a String value.

So in this case, you probably want something along the lines of:

return title

...inside your function, assuming you have a variable called title somewhere else in your class.

The typical pattern for this is that your variable will be called mTitle, while the 'getter' function you're writing will be called getTitle() or something similar, and will use return mTitle to retrieve the object's title. But I haven't looked at the code for this particular challenge, so maybe they name things a little differently.