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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Using Intents to Display and Share Posts Opening a Webpage Within the App

Posted by Ryan Shohoney
Ryan Shohoney
Courses Plus Student 1,916 Points

Throwing a null pointer exception

So I've narrowed my problem down to the line that says "webView.loadUrl(blogUri.toString());" I commented it out and my blog post activity will open but now when I don't comment it out the program crashes and I get a null pointer exception. Any idea what could be causing this?

Ryan Shohoney
Ryan Shohoney
Courses Plus Student 1,916 Points

Solved. Turns out I had accidentally created my web view in the fragment_activity_blog_web_view instead of the regular activity. Problem solved!