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Android

Posted by Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
188 Points

What does Eclipse do in Build a Simple Android App?

I understand it answers questions when you shake it, but how? If you shake it, how does it know which question was running through your mind, and how does it have all those answers programmed into the app? Someone tell me how this works.

1 Answer

Amit Bijlani
STAFF
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Amit Bijlani
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Eclipse is simply an IDE (integrated development environment) that you use to write your code and preview your app in the emulator.

This is how the Crystal Ball app works on either platform:

  1. You programmatically add all the answers in an array
  2. Randomly generate a number which then accesses and displays one of the answers from the array on the screen.