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Android Android Activity Lifecycle The Activity Lifecycle Retrieving Instance State

Posted by Philip G
Philip G
14,600 Points

Initializing variables in constructor

Hi there,

in this video, Ben initializes mColor and mFact directly when declaring the variables. Is there any difference if I initialize them in the constructor? By the way, is it bad practice to use constructors in Android activities?

Thanks in advance,

Philip

Ben Deitch Ben Jakuben

Mazen Halawi
Mazen Halawi
7,806 Points
Mazen Halawi
Mazen Halawi
7,806 Points

It shouldnt matter, its good practice to initialise the variables so they dont hold null values and crash the app if you forget to check for null. You can consider initializing the variables as giving the default values and if you need to change those default values you can simply send new values through parameters into a function.