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Jakob Mick
Jakob Mick
1,872 Points
Posted by Jakob Mick
Jakob Mick
1,872 Points

Fun Facts App Repetition.

I am pretty new to Java and programming but I really want to improve the Fun Facts App. I tried to get rid of the repetition of colors and facts.

    public int getColor() {

         String color;
         String lastColorPicked = String.valueOf(9);

         Random randomGenerator = new Random();
         int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(mColors.length);

         color = mColors[randomNumber];

         if ( color == lastColorPicked ) {
             return getColor();
         }
         else lastColorPicked = color;

         String mLastColorPicked = mColors[randomNumber];

         int colorAsInt = Color.parseColor(color);

         return colorAsInt;
     }

Can you do it like this at all? Or is it not possible? I know there is probably a better way to do it so if someone could show me how to make my code work and what the better code looks like that would be pretty neat.

And I'm really sorry if my code makes no sense at all but like I said I'm new to programming.