Treehouse: User input from Text

//Treehouse: User input from Text

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

    private EditText mNameField;
    private Button mStartButton;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mNameField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.nameEditText);
        mStartButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.startButton);

        mStartButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String name = mNameField.getText().toString();
                startStory(name);
            }
        });
    }

    private void startStory(String name){
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, StoryActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra(getString(R.string.key_name), name);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

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public class MainActivity extends Activity { //MainActivity extends Activity meaning Main activity class is a subclass/child class of Activity class and inherits all the stuff from Activity

    private EditText mNameField; // Remember that this private keyword means that this field can only be used within this class. Which is what we want. We will generally make member variables private like this.

    private Button mStartButton;

    @Override  // @Override - Java annotations are hints to the compiler that help us while developing. They aren't actually required for the code to work. This hint states that this method is overriding the onCreate method in the parent class.

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { // why is onCreate here protected instead of private? Protected is kind of a cross between public and private. It makes things available to other classes in the same package or sub-classes of this class.

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mNameField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.nameEditText); // Blank ____ to input name in app
        mStartButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.startButton);  // Button to submit name

        mStartButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { //onClickListener for the button
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String name = mNameField.getText().toString(); // String to hold name //".getText" to get the text from the field // ".toString" to convert it to a String
                startStory(name);
            }
        });
    }

    private void startStory(String name){
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, StoryActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra(getString(R.string.key_name), name);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}


// https://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-an-interactive-story-app/user-input/getting-text-from-an-edittext