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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Adapting Data for Display in a List Handling Errors Using Dialogs

Sixto Rios
Sixto Rios
1,864 Points
Posted by Sixto Rios
Sixto Rios
1,864 Points

Compiler errors on code challenge part 3

This is compilers I keep getting. When you look at the video and the API for Android though, those methods do exist where they accept a string resource id as a parameter

JavaTester.java:70: setTitle(java.lang.String) in android.app.AlertDialog.Builder cannot be applied to (int) builder.setTitle(R.string.dialog_title); ^ JavaTester.java:71: setMessage(java.lang.String) in android.app.AlertDialog.Builder cannot be applied to (int) builder.setMessage(R.string.dialog_message); ^ 2 errors

1 Answer

Erin Kabbash
Erin Kabbash
5,210 Points
Erin Kabbash
Erin Kabbash
5,210 Points

Can you post your code please? Seems like you maybe trying to assign an int to a string and it needs to be cast first.

Sixto Rios
Sixto Rios
1,864 Points
Sixto Rios
Sixto Rios
1,864 Points

I figured out what's up. Apparently Treehouse doesn't have the method implemented to accept a resource ID as a parameter. Here's my code, it works because it is in the API but Treehouse doesn't have it.

/*** This code is an excerpt from a class that extends Activity ***/ AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); builder.setTitle(R.string.dialog_title); builder.setMessage(R.string.dialog_message);