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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Improving Our Code Simple Refactoring: Using a Class

Finley Payne
Finley Payne
826 Points
Posted by Finley Payne
Finley Payne
826 Points

Why is facts array public?

Hello, i was wondering why Ben set facts array to public, when we do not access it from outside the class, we only refer to it in getFact() method, so it should be private, shouldn´t it?

Nauman Bashir
Nauman Bashir
1,278 Points
Nauman Bashir
Nauman Bashir
1,278 Points

I made it private, it stills work.

1 Answer

Sina Maleki
Sina Maleki
6,135 Points
Sina Maleki
Sina Maleki
6,135 Points

Hi, It should be private in other classes not in itself class. You can access to the private member and method of classes in other classes. Best