Chapter 2 Linking Activities with Intents

Gink · January 11th, 2012, 06:31 PM

I've got an error on this line of code:

startActivity(new Intent(net.learn2develop.ACTIVITY2));

stating "net.learn2develop.ACTIVITY2 cannot be resolved to a type"

I've compared my code against the book over and over and am not finding mistakes.

I've got this in the manifest:

Code:

<activity 
            android:name=".Activity2"
            android:label="Activity 2">
            <intent-filter> 
                <action android:name="net.learn2develop.ACTIVITY2" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
                </intent-filter>

The suggestions to fix it in Eclipse are to create the class ACTIVITY2... but the book had me create the class as Activity2... then Eclipse suggests the code:

public class ACTIVITY2 extends Intent

but the book called for

public class Activity2 extends Activity

Any help is appreciated.

Gink · January 11th, 2012, 06:46 PM

Well I read forward and found the bit about how you can use different code to call an intent within the same application so changed the line to:

startActivity(new Intent(this, Activity2.class));

and everything works now. Still not sure why the original code wasn't ok, as it was calling it by the name in the manifest. Oh well, on we go

Cliff2310 · January 11th, 2012, 08:21 PM

Hi Gink
For what is worth, I has some of the same problems. I don't remember what I did to fix it. The code in my version is the same as yours. I can not see any errors.
Cliff