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Sousheel Vunnam
3,366 PointsApp crashing after a second - Probably Custom List adapter
Whenever I start Ribbit, it crashes after starting up. I am able to see the home screen for a little. This is probably attributed to the custom list adapter because before it was working fine. I tried debugging it and found the same result that it was crashing after the list adapter. The logcat says there is a fatal exception in MAIN and gives a bunch of NULLPOINTEREXCEPTIONs.
Here is the fatal exception: https://gist.github.com/soush915/1564e48a5e60398c8846
1 Answer
Doug Ray
7,493 PointsHey Sousheel !
So whenever you get a null pointer exception it basically means that the system was expecting a value for something it was pointing to and what it was given was null or empty. In your case the culprit is at
android.widget.AbsListView.obtainView(AbsListView.java:2161).
Most of the time this is because you forgot to initialize the view with the findViewById(R.id.AbsListView) call and only initialized it like this ListView AbsListView;
If this is not it than the next thing to check is the data that you are passing into the adapter trying to give a null value to your adapter could cause this as well !
Hope this helps
Doug4less =D
Sousheel Vunnam
3,366 PointsSousheel Vunnam
3,366 PointsI was actually returning null rather than convertView in the getView method. Thank you for the help!