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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) Intents and Multiple Activities Getting Data from an Intent

Omar Tsai
Omar Tsai
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Posted by Omar Tsai
Omar Tsai
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Why does putting a upper case make the app crash?

Why does making the "name" upper case as "Name" make the app crash?

2 Answers

Dylan Merritt
Dylan Merritt
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Dylan Merritt
Dylan Merritt
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It will depend on the exact circumstance, but Java is a case-sensitive language so if you use a lowercase where an uppercase is required, or vice versa, then it can result in a crash. Also, if you have name as a member variable and change it to Name, but forget to update the other usages of it, then it can cause problems.

Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
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Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 Points

As i heared Java is case sensitive lets break it like this

var name is different than var Name

Why? well, the first is all in lover case. The second had up case first letter.

Hope this helps!