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Android Build an Interactive Story App Intents and Multiple Activities Using String Resources

michael lee
michael lee
5,179 Points

What am I missing?

I must be missing something, this is the code Challenge part two, can anyone help, thanks!!

CodeChallenge.java
Button loadPuppiesButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.puppiesButton);
Resources resources = getResources();
String buttonLabel = resources.getString(R.string.morePuppies);
loadPuppiesButton.setText("LOAD");
strings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="morePuppies">See More Puppies</string>
</resources>

1 Answer

Tonnie Fanadez
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Tonnie Fanadez
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 22,796 Points

Hello Mike,

To set the buttonLabel String variable to the new String resource we should use this format which returns the string value associated with a particular resource ID.

String string = getString(R.string.NAME_OF_STRING_RESOURCE);

In the above code snippet R represents the Resources

string identifies the type of the resource in this case String resource

NAME_OF_STRING_RESOURCE is the name of String resource in this case morePuppies

See the below code snippet on how to approach this challenge and let us know.

Button loadPuppiesButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.puppiesButton);
String buttonLabel = getString(R.string.morePuppies);
loadPuppiesButton.setText("LOAD");