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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) The Model-View-Controller Pattern Adding a Custom Constructor

Posted by Malcolm Mutambanengwe
Malcolm Mutambanengwe
4,205 Points

constructors

Do I need to get user text?

Spaceship.java 
public class Spaceship {
    public String mType;
    }

    public String getType() {
      return mType;
    }

    public void setType(String type) {
      mType = type;
    }

    public String Spaceship() {
    mType = "SHUTTLE";
    } 

    }
    public void setType(String type) {
      mType = type;
    }

    public String Spaceship() {
    mType = "";
    } 

    }
    public void setType(String type) {
      mType = type;
    }


}

2 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Malcolm Mutambanengwe

For stage one of this challenge you want to create a constructor that takes no parameters and sets the mType variable to a value of "SHUTTLE".

You've pretty much done that except the constructor doesn't specify a returned data type - so remove the keyword String from your constructor. It should just look like:

    public Spaceship(){
      mType = "SHUTTLE";
    }

Your code also seems to have duplicated the other methods - best tidy that up too!

Steve.

Malcolm Mutambanengwe
Malcolm Mutambanengwe
4,205 Points
Malcolm Mutambanengwe
Malcolm Mutambanengwe
4,205 Points

Thanks Steve.

I am getting there slowly, bit by bit, byte by byte. Coders and tidying up, lol.

Mal