# APDE and switch(String) compile errors
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/apde-and-switch-string-compile-errors/5649
**Category:** Processing for Android
**Created:** [November 17, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/apde-and-switch-string-compile-errors/5649 "2018-11-17T22:43:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@InSat](https://discourse.processing.org/u/InSat)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/apde-and-switch-string-compile-errors/5649/1 "2018-11-17T22:43:26Z")
Hello, I’m a begginer with APDE and processing, and meed some help.
I create this sketch on Processing 3.4 in Windows : no PB, it’s juste a sample.
//-------------------------
String state = “none”;
int w, h;
void setup() {
state = “setup”;
w = 100;
h = 100;
}
void draw() {
switch(state) {
case “none”: /\* do nothing \*/ break;
case “setup”: state = “draw”; break;
case “draw”: line(0, 0, random(0, w), random(0, h)); break;
}
}
//-------------------------
But when I try to run it under my Phone with APDE verrsion 0.5.0 I have many compiles errors.
Ok managing a state in a string is not a good idea, this is just a sample to have the compile error.
Initializing build sequence…
Deleted old build folder
Injected log broadcaster
Detected architecture armeabi-v7a
Packaging resources with AAPT…
Compiling with ECJ…
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1. ERROR in /data/data/com.calsignlabs.apde/app\_build/src/processing/test/switch/switch.java (at line 1)
package processing.test.switch;
```
^^^^^^
```
Syntax error on token “switch”, Identifier expected
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1. ERROR in /data/data/com.calsignlabs.apde/app\_build/src/processing/test/switch/switch.java (at line 17)
public class switch extends PApplet {
```
^^^^^^
```
Syntax error on token “switch”, Identifier expected
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1. ERROR in /data/data/com.calsignlabs.apde/app\_build/src/processing/test/switch/MainActivity.java (at line 1)
package processing.test.switch;
```
^^^^^^
```
Syntax error on token “switch”, Identifier expected
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1. ERROR in /data/data/com.calsignlabs.apde/app\_build/src/processing/test/switch/MainActivity.java (at line 23)
sketch = new switch();
```
^^^^^^
```
Syntax error on token “switch”, invalid ClassType
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1. ERROR in /data/data/com.calsignlabs.apde/app\_build/src/processing/test/switch/APDEInternalLogBroadcasterUtil.java (at line 1)
package processing.test.switch;
```
^^^^^^
```
Syntax error on token “switch”, Identifier expected
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1. ERROR in /data/data/com.calsignlabs.apde/app\_build/gen/processing/test/switch/R.java (at line 8)
package processing.test.switch;
```
^^^^^^
```
Syntax error on token “switch”, Identifier expected
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6 problems (6 errors)
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### Author:  [@calsign](https://discourse.processing.org/u/calsign)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/apde-and-switch-string-compile-errors/5649/2 "2018-11-19T21:35:31Z")
The problem is that you have named your sketch `switch`, which is a keyword in Processing/Java. The compiler errors are with the code that Android mode generates around your sketch. You need to rename your sketch something else, from menu \> “Rename Sketch”.