Why is this so HARD!?!

You didnt tell it bestFrog is a string?

Try String bestFrog = frogNames[0];

Hey James, I've seen a few things you've posted where it turns out your error was mis-typing something. Don't worry about it man, this isn't a typing lesson. Use tools to help you.

I always mis-type everything and forget semi-colons etc- so I keep an IDE (I use IntelliJ) open, write my answers there and then paste them into the answers field.

...thanks guys. Uhm, I basically figured out most of what I was doing wrong. Instead of code I'm starting to think of it like a language that has to be read line by line. Like you can't tell it to do something with an object until you've defined that object for it.

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yeah they dont like to give out the complete answer here buddy

Oh realy? I didn't know anything about that :s

weird, I tried that once before and it didn't work, CRAP I misspelled string UGH, all that head over a stupid typo. I was using like Str to define something as a string. Thanks.

Don`t despair man :) you will find your self often in things like that forgetting a quotation mark, bracket, dot or stuff like that :)

Its just frustrating, this is one thing on a very short list of things that is difficult for me to learn (curves and spleens, vascular anatomy, and cinestetics). I tend to be very much a creative big picture person and this is such an incredibly logical detail oriented, can't make a single mistake kind of thing.

http://s10.postimg.org/9hn671ed5/Screenshot_2.png

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-simple-android-app/pretty-little-things/animating-the-crystal-ball-2

Can I get a hint?

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I'm missing something here

Hey James, I've seen a few things you've posted where it turns out your error was mis-typing something. Don't worry about it man, this isn't a typing lesson. Use tools to help you.

I always mis-type everything and forget semi-colons etc- so I keep an IDE (I use IntelliJ) open, write my answers there and then paste them into the answers field.

While I do agree in a real-world situation youll always have IDE's, i dont agree with using them to move on in treehouse. Instead, use the treehouse editor and keep some documentation handy. You think you're doing something wrong? look it up. Thats what programmers do in the real world. Thats the reason people cant post answers here, people look it up and cheat.

See the problem with this one is that I'm confuse as to exactly what the question is asking me to do.

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I think what I need to do is take all of this code "private SensorManager mSensorManager; private Sensor mAccelerometer; private ShakeDetector mShakeDetector;"

And cut it from the MainActivity Section and put it in its own member class beneath the MainActivity function. Then I can put the member class into the MainActivity and the parameters of the onCreate method.

Could someone please let me know if I'm close because I'm not even sure I understand the question?

Your close with the code you have in the image. Look at the last part of the question about passing a parameter. For what its worth, I follow along in the videos writing the code in Eclipse so when it's time for a code challenge I leave the editor open and use my code as a reference to what is being asked. Take your time and go step by step through the question.

Oh, thanks, I actually figured it out. It took me a ridiculously long time of staring blankly at the screen pondering what I'd done wrong, which as some point inevitably became an angsty existential question, but all was put right when I was able to discern the proper answer with a bit of advice.