I\'m a beginner android/java programmer and my background is primarily in C++ and C#. In C# if I have a string variable called myWord and it has a value of \"Hello\" I can appen
Your issue is on your declaration of the String instance in both the method and the variable.
It requires a "S" not a lower case s.
Also the "+" sign does work, it is just your String declaration as pointed out.
All the best :)