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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) User Input Getting Text from an EditText

Posted by Derek Markman
Derek Markman
16,291 Points

My app still works the same, but with a few differences, can someone explain these differences?

Well the first difference is in MainActivity.java (In the lessons, Ben's just says "extends Activity"):

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

and the second difference is when we were editing the styles.xml file under the values directory. After I changed my parent to:

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    </style>

</resources>

It took off the action bar after I saved. I have a values-w820dp directory like Ben. But I don't have a values-v21 directory. Is this because I configured this differently? Or is it because I'm using Android Studio Version 1.4 Preview 3?

I remember him saying something about, if my action bar disappears after editing the styles.xml file inside of the values directory I configured something differently than him.

Thanks, Derek. :)

malkio kusanagi
malkio kusanagi
12,336 Points
malkio kusanagi
malkio kusanagi
12,336 Points

You can extend activity instead of AppCompatActivity if you want... you just need to import the appropriate namespace on top of the class file

As for the "values-v21" for newer versions of android if your IDE doesn't generate the folder automatically you can just create it manually and copy the contents from values-v19 or v20 or v18 and start editing from there.

Hope I was able to help, and don't forget to clean project and rebuild

Derek Markman
Derek Markman
16,291 Points

Thanks for the clarification malkio.