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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) The Model-View-Controller Pattern Adding a Custom Constructor

Posted by joshwuebben
joshwuebben
1,255 Points

Need help!

dunno what to do

Spaceship.java 
public class Spaceship {
    public String mType;

    public String mType(String mType){
   mType = "SHUTTLE";
    return mType;}

    public String getType() {
      return mType;
    }

    public void setType(String type) {
      mType = type;
    }
}

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

The constructor must have the same name as the class. Also, the first task is asking for a default constructor with no parameters:

public class Spaceship {
    public String mType;

    public Spaceship() {
      mType = "SHUTTLE"; 
    }

    public String getType() {
      return mType;
    }

    public void setType(String type) {
      mType = type;
    }
}

For the second task you need to add a second constructor, but this one takes a String parameter to update mType:

public class Spaceship {
    public String mType;

    public Spaceship() {
      mType = "SHUTTLE"; 
    }

    public Spaceship(String type) {
      mType = type; 
    }

    public String getType() {
      return mType;
    }

    public void setType(String type) {
      mType = type;
    }
}