All items in a Kotlin array always contain the last item

Question

I'm trying to populate an array with files in my raw folder. I then pick a random slot in that array and use it to play that file.

But when I do this, every slot seems to contain whatever was the final video in the array. I'm not sure what the cause of this is...

    var videos = Array(5){R.raw.c0; R.raw.c1; R.raw.c2; R.raw.c3; R.raw.c4};

    videoView.setVideoPath("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + videos[Random.nextInt(0, 4)])
    videoView.requestFocus()
    videoView.start()

Answer 1

You're initializing the array incorrectly.

The {...} block after the Array(5) is actually a lambda that takes an integer and returns the content for that index in the array. The semicolons (rather than commas) mean that each of R.raw.c0, R.raw.c1, etc. is just a statement that doesn't do anything. Since R.raw.c4 is the last statement in that block, it sets all five indexes to that value.

You probably meant:

val videos = intArrayOf(R.raw.c0, R.raw.c1, R.raw.c2, R.raw.c3, R.raw.c4)

Note the replacement of semicolons with commas. I also switched the var to a val, as you don't appear to be changing it.