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Donald Beaudin
4,461 PointsI Don't understand what the id is and it would be?
"Initialize the showFactButton variable using the findViewById() method like the TextView above it. The ID for the button is showFactButton, and don't forget to cast it to a Button with (Button)!"
what would it be?
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Rebecca Rich
Courses Plus Student 8,592 PointsHi Donald,
The findViewById method simply finds a view element with a given id in your Android views. The show fact button has an id of showFactButton, so we can use findViewById to get a reference to that view element, generically. To make sure we access that view element as a Button (so we can use all of the Android Button methods on it), we will cast it to the Button type:
showFactButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.showFactButton);
The R is a reference to the application resources and the dots represent that we are taking a step into those resources, similar to opening up a file folder... So within the resources, we are looking within the id's for the showFactButton id.
Hope this helps! Let us know if you have any more questions.