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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Improving Our Code Adding More Colors

Posted by Jeff Burn
Jeff Burn
839 Points

Why do we setup a member variable called mColorWheel and a public class called ColorWheel?

Shouldn't we be able to reference the public class without adding a member variable?

Greg Schmidt
Greg Schmidt
5,908 Points

I believe that doing it we run ColorWheel and return colorAsInt, otherwise you wouldn't have anything to get and assign to color.

1 Answer

Dylan Merritt
Dylan Merritt
15,682 Points
Dylan Merritt
Dylan Merritt
15,682 Points

Creating the ColorWheel class is a way of putting the color code information apart from the rest of your code. This is considered best practice when programming as it keeps things clean and organized. The variable mColorWheel is a reference to your class, so that your Main Activity knows what you're talking about when you reference the code in ColorWheel. Hope this helps!