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

Posted by Stephanie Fu
Stephanie Fu
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Why use toString()?

At around 05:40, toString() is used. Can you also cast the Editable to a String like we did in previous lessons? Or does that not work for strings?

Ham Hamey
Ham Hamey
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Ham Hamey
Ham Hamey
5,712 Points

It doesn't toString method is used to get a suitable string format from the edittext string for more info reffer example link

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The getText() method does not return a String, but an editable type. That object needs to be converted to a String in order to be stored in the name variable.