Step 03 - Donate Button

Rename the button in the Outline view:

Fix the lint error - and give the button the text ‘Donate!’. If all goes as expected, your xml files should be like this:

<resources>
    <string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
    <string name="donateSubtitle">Please give generously</string>
    <string name="donateButton">Donate</string>

If there is a deviation from the above - retrace your steps (delete the button) until you can match the above.

We can now switch our attention to the Java Activity class Donate:

Insert the following new field into the class:

The class will have to be imported. The class name will always match the name in the Pallette:

We are free to call the variable anything we like. However, in order to keep confusion to a minimum, always call the variable by the same name you used in the Outline view:

In onCreate - we need to initialise this variable:

    Log.v("Donate", "got the donate button");

This is the complete activity class:

Finding the log message can be very difficult, unless you set a filter. In the ‘LogCat’ view in eclipse, create a filter like this:

If you then select the filter, we should see our message:

We should check the donate button actually exists before logging our success:

    if (donateButton != null)
    {
      Log.v("Donate", "Really got the donate button");