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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Improving Our Code Simple Refactoring: Using a Class

FactBook and getFact are underlined red: Cannot resolve?

package maneesa.fun_facts;

import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.TextView;

public class FunFactsActivity extends Activity {

private FactBook mFactBook = new FactBook();

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_fun_facts);
    // Declare our view variables and assign views

    final TextView factLabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.factLabel);
    Button showfactbutton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.showfactbutton);
    View.OnClickListener listener = new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override

        public void onClick(View view) {
        String fact = mFactBook.getFact();

            //Update label with dynamic fact
            factLabel.setText(fact);

        }
    };
    showfactbutton.setOnClickListener(listener);

}

}

public class FactBook { //Member Variables

//Methods - things the object can do
   public String[] mFacts = {
            "Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.",
            "Ostriches can run faster than horses.",
            "Olympic gold medals are actually made mostly of silver.",
            "You are born with 300 bones; by the time you are an adult you will have 206.",
            "It takes about 8 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Earth.",
            "Some bamboo plants can grow almost a meter in just one day.",
            "The state of Florida is bigger than England.",
            "Some penguins can leap 2-3 meters out of the water.",
            "On average, it takes 66 days to form a new habit.",
            "Mammoths still walked the earth when the Great Pyramid was being built." };

    // Stuff that will happen when clicked
    //Button was clicked so update fact

    public String getFact(){

        String fact = "";

    //randomly select fact
    Random randomGenerator = new Random(); // construct a new random number generator
    int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(mFacts.length);

    fact = mFacts[randomNumber];

    return fact;

I had this exact problem... it turned out that my FactBook and FunFactsActivity were in different folders, in my case they both needed to be in app/src/java/com.example.suzie.funfacts -- once I moved them to be in the same folder, the red lines went away.

See: example link