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Android Build a Simple Android App with Kotlin Testing and Debugging Writing to the Log

Posted by Tawanda Mukungureyi
Tawanda Mukungureyi
7,361 Points

Use a method to set the TAG variable instead of hard-coding the class name as "TreehouseActivity".

I don't know where i am getting it wrong

TreehouseActivity.kt 
import android.app.Activity
import android.os.Bundle

class TreehouseActivity : Activity() {
  val TAG = TreehouseActivity.class.getName()

  override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_treehouse)
    Log.d(TAG, "Activity created!")

  }
}

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

I think the method you need to call is getSimpleName(). Plus remember you're working with Kotlin in this project, so the syntax to call the method will be slightly different. 

private val TAG = TreehouseActivity.class.java.getSimpleName
Tawanda Mukungureyi
Tawanda Mukungureyi
7,361 Points

thank you i used val TAG = TreehouseActivity::class.java.simpleName