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erlanggasatria
4,867 Pointswhat is newInstance?
Hi, I already done with showing all errors in Dialog. But what does newInstance mean?
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Jeremiah Shore
31,168 PointsTo be a little more specific, newInstance() is a method all Objects inherit from the Object class. It can be overridden for your own uses. A specific time I have used it was with an alert dialog. I made my class AlertDialogFragment a subclass (extends) of DialogFragment.
I did this because it is I'll advised to use a non-default constructor. new AlertDialogFragment(myString, myInt) is a non-default while new AlertDialogFragment() is the default. I still needed someway to pass arguments at creation of a dialog so I could pass the title, message, and button text each time I made a dialog. Overriding the newInstance() method made that possible.
Read more about it on this treehouse forum post. Also be sure to read the stackOverflow article that was shared in the answer; linked again here
Derick Browne
Courses Plus Student 6,575 PointsDerick Browne
Courses Plus Student 6,575 PointsIs part of a syntax which make a new instance of a code(new object). Random random = new Random();