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Use Classes in an Android app to store data [Classes, Android 101]

Animals: Real or Myth!? Lab

Use Classes in an Android app to store data [Classes, Android 101]

We're going to build a game over the next few days: Animals: REAL OR MYTH!? This game will be a quiz game that queries users if an animal is real or mythological. Before we can complete it, we need to feel comfortable adding classes to a project and using them. You're going to fork this repository and then clone it. You will then create a new Android Studio project inside of the repository on your computer. When completed, please push your changes live and submit a pull request.

Test Drive

• Clone the following repository: https://github.com/code-for-coffee/animals-real-or-myth
• Run the application in Android studio
• Identify what the app is doing; what works? What doesn't?
• Inspect the source code for inspiration
• Now, prepare to write something like this on your own (but not broken)

Groups! We recommend that everyone work together in pairs/groups to brainstorm how to work this process out before going it alone to write the code. Ask your peers for help if you run into a problem!

Class Requirements

• Create a custom Animal class with the following properties: numLegs, topSpeed, isEndangered, name, isMythological, decription, habitat
• Complete the constructor for the Animal class
• Create all getters and setters for the Animal properties
• Instantiate an Animal in your activity's onCreate, and display some of its properties in a TextView with an id of txt_animal and a variable of `mTxtAnimal
• Use the setter methods to modify some of the animal's properties and show the modified animal in a second TextView; make sure to prefix all member variables with an m, such as mTxt or mEditTxt.
• Bonus: Add additional methods to your Animal class that return a formatted String using the class properties (such as toString().

App Requirements

• Add an EditText to your app. Give it the id of edit_txt_animal and a variable of mEditTxtAnimal
• Create an [] or ArrayList of your animal.
• Place an ItemClickListener on your EditText and have it store the name of each animal you have added to your collection.
• Using saveInstanceState, store your animal data. Whenever an activity is onCreate'd, render the names of every animal that has been added. You may need to write a method that loops through and gets the name of every animal and puts it into a String.
• Create a simple, single view application that allows users to enter in animals on one portion on the screen.
• On another portion of the screen, allow the user to cycle through your collection of animals and answer if they are Mythological or not.
• You do not need to keep track of score or attempts (but it is a nice stretch goal).

Submission

• Add/commit changes to your fork.
• Push/publish them live.
• Create a pull request.