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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Networking Making an HTTP GET Request with OkHttp

michaelmugo
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What exactly the purpose of making the TAG public, when it is recommended as private from the Dev docs?

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Ebrima Comma
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Variables or methods declared with access modifier; private are accessible only to the methods of the class in which they are declared. Make the modifier public makes it accessible from outside of the class. So if you want to make that variable to be accessible outside of that class for some reason, then public is your choice. But the most important thing you should note is, the log class is use to output errors in an activity. so you expect it to output errors relating to only that activity not the other way round.

michaelmugo
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michaelmugo
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True... And since we're using it for 1 activity so far, then we should just declare TAG privately.

I only see it useful if we declared a custom log class

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