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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) User Input Getting Text from an EditText

Posted by ameydharden
ameydharden
3,329 Points

This video put errors in my code all over the place

I've been following the videos close to exactly, and when I entered the code Ben enters here in the MainActivity file, Android studio put up all sorts of errors. I did seem to notice some difference on the collapsed part at the beginning, and I'm wondering if that's it, but I'm not sure here.

Here is my code:

package ameydharden.interactivestory;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Toast;


public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    private EditText mNameField;
    private Button mStartButton;

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

        mNameField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.nameEditText);
        mButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.startButton);

        mStartButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String name = mNameField.getText().toString();
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, name, Toast.LENGTH_LONG.show();
            }
        });
    }
}

1 Answer

Cooper Craig
Cooper Craig
2,104 Points
Cooper Craig
Cooper Craig
2,104 Points

I think your problem might be you declared a value for mButton but it should be mStartButton

Try that out.