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Android

Posted by Philip Gales
Philip Gales
15,193 Points

Android Activity Lifecycle Error

Not a question, more of an error that I noticed.

I downloaded the Fun Facts project, and in the FactBook class, mFacts is set as private. The video titled "Retrieving Instance State" (the fifth video at 6:46) in the "Android Activity Lifecycle" course tells us to call the mFacts variable in our main class. This obviously results in an error as the variable is set as private in another class.

Not sure if you wanted to leave a note below the video, or let confused users search for this question :)

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Hi Philip - In the Fun Facts project from the Build a Simple Android App course mFacts variable is set to private. However, in the version of the project that is provided as a zip file in the Android Activity Lifecycle course mFacts is not private. You can see it in the same video you mentioned at 06:50.