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Android Android Lists and Adapters (2015) Using Parcelable Data Reading Parcelable Data

Zubeyr Aciksari
Zubeyr Aciksari
21,074 Points

Finally, we need to update the length of the array returned in the Creator's 'newArray()' method. Use the size parameter

Hi, can u please help me? I am stuck in here.. Thanks!

VideoGame.java
public class VideoGame implements Parcelable {

    public String mTitle = "";
    public int mYear = 0;

    public VideoGame() {
        // intentionally blank
    }

    // getters and setters omitted for brevity!

    @Override
    public int describeContents() {
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
        dest.writeString(mTitle);
        dest.writeInt(mYear);
    }

    public VideoGame(Parcel in) {
        // Task 1 code here!
      mTitle = in.readString();
      mYear = in.readInt();
    }

    public static final Creator<VideoGame> CREATOR = new Creator<VideoGame>() {
        @Override
        public VideoGame createFromParcel(Parcel source) {
            // Task 2 code here!
          VideoGame videoGame= new VideoGame(source);
            return videoGame;
        }

        @Override
        public VideoGame[] newArray(int size) {
            // Task 3 code here!
          VideoGame videoGame= new VideoGame[size];
            return new videoGame[0];
        }
    };
}

2 Answers

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Zubeyr;

You are close, let's take a look.

Task 3

Finally, we need to update the length of the array returned in the Creator's 'newArray()' method. Use the size parameter passed in.

Here's the prompting code for that newArray() method:

        @Override
        public VideoGame[] newArray(int size) {
            // Task 3 code here!
            return new VideoGame[0];
        }

To complete the challenge we need to have newArray() return a new VideoGame array of size size, right? We can do that by having it return a new VideoGame[size], which will allow us to call the method in our code as newArray(1500) and we will get a brand new VideoGame array object with a size of 1500.

If you are still stuck, please post back.

Happy coding,

Ken