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NPE accessing Application method from AlerDialog OnClick method

Building on a theme from yesterday...I'm getting an NPE accessing a method in a singleton Application class from within an AlertDialog.
Activity SavedMealsActivity sets OnLongClickListenerSavedMeals as the listener for a series of TextViews in a ScrollView. OnLongClickListenerSavedMeals is defined as a separate class.
OnLongClickListenerSavedMeals displays an AlertDialog which gives the option of going to a different Activity, but it first needs to fire the methods of an Application class which is defined as a singleton (MealTimerApplication). This is the first line of the onClick method (line 25 in the first code sample below), and it throws the NPE because the activity is null at the time.
I've tried passing in the activity from the calling Activity (SavedMealsActivity) but for some reason it's not working as I'd hoped. Any ideas?
OnLongClick listener class - OnLongClickListenerSavedMeals:
public class OnLongClickListenerSavedMeals implements OnLongClickListener {
Context context;
String id;
private Activity activity;
public OnLongClickListenerSavedMeals(Activity activity) {
this.activity = activity;
this.context = activity;
}
#Override
public boolean onLongClick(View view){
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
this.context = context;
id = view.getTag().toString();
final CharSequence[] items = { "Edit", "Delete" };
//Set activity to allow context to be used in the OnClickListener/onClick method below
this.activity = activity;
new AlertDialog.Builder(context).setTitle("Meal Item")
.setItems(items, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int item) {
if (item == 0) {
//Set the global meal_id variable and invoke the MealActivity
((MealTimerApplication) activity.getApplication()).setMealId(Long.getLong(id));
Intent myIntent = new Intent(activity.getBaseContext(),MealActivity.class);
activity.startActivityForResult(myIntent, 0);
}
else if (item == 1) {
boolean deleteSuccessful = new TableControllerMeal(context).delete(id);
if (deleteSuccessful){
Toast.makeText(context, "Record was deleted.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}else{
Toast.makeText(context, "Unable to delete record.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
((SavedMealsActivity) context).readRecords();
}
dialog.dismiss();
}
}).show();
return false;
}
Calling Activity - SavedMealsActivity:
public class SavedMealsActivity extends Activity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_saved_meals);
//Read saved meal records from the database and display them
readRecords();
}
public void readRecords() {
LinearLayout linearLayoutRecords = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.linearLayoutRecords);
linearLayoutRecords.removeAllViews();
List<meal> meal = new TableControllerMeal(this).read();
if (meal.size() > 0) {
for (meal obj : meal) {
long id = obj.id;
String MealDesc = obj.meal_desc;
int MealMinutes = obj.meal_ready_time;
String textViewContents = MealDesc + " - ready at "
+ Utilities.formatTime(MealMinutes);
TextView textViewItem = new TextView(this);
textViewItem.setPadding(0, 10, 0, 10);
textViewItem.setText(textViewContents);
textViewItem.setTag(Long.toString(id));
textViewItem.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListenerSavedMeals(this));
linearLayoutRecords.addView(textViewItem);
}
}
else {
TextView Item = new TextView(this);
Item.setPadding(8, 8, 8, 8);
Item.setText("No records yet.");
linearLayoutRecords.addView(Item);
}
}
Application class:
public class MealTimerApplication extends Application {
private static MealTimerApplication singleton;
private long mealId = 0;
// Returns the application instance
public static MealTimerApplication getInstance() {
return singleton;
}
public final void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
singleton = this;
}
public void setMealId(long mealId) {
this.mealId = mealId;
}
public long getMealId() {
return this.mealId;
}
}
Logcat:
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): java.lang.NullPointerException
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at com.ian.mealtimer.OnLongClickListenerSavedMeals$1.onClick(OnLongClickListenerSavedMeals.java:39)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at com.android.internal.app.AlertController$AlertParams$3.onItemClick(AlertController.java:941)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at android.widget.AdapterView.performItemClick(AdapterView.java:299)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at android.widget.AbsListView.performItemClick(AbsListView.java:1113)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at android.widget.AbsListView$PerformClick.run(AbsListView.java:2904)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at android.widget.AbsListView$3.run(AbsListView.java:3638)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595)
05-28 16:48:03.637: E/AndroidRuntime(4241): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

You get NPE because of autoboxing. Long.getLong(String) is not what you actually you need, check its description:
Returns the Long value of the system property identified by string.
It definitely returns null in your case. Moreover it returns null reference to Long object, but your MealTimerApplication.setMealId expects argument with primitive type long. Here is the point where auto-boxing implicitly trying to cast your Long object returned by getLong method to the long primitive. But as value was null auto-boxing fails and you get NPE.
You should just use Long.valueOf(String) instead of Long.getLong(String).

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException when using YouTubePlayerView

Here is the code that uses the youtube api:
public class ArticleAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
private ArrayList<ArticlePart> articlePartList;
private Activity activity;
private LayoutInflater layoutInflater;
public ArticleAdapter(Activity activity, ArrayList<ArticlePart> articlePartList) {
this.activity = activity;
this.articlePartList = articlePartList;
layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(activity);
if (articlePartList == null) {
Log.i("articlePartList", "null");
}
}
...
...
public View getView(int position, View convertView, final ViewGroup parent) {
final ArticlePart articlePart = articlePartList.get(position);
String articlePartKind = articlePart.getKind();
View view = null;
String[] leaves = {"text", "richtext"};
if (articlePartKind.equals("video_entry")) {
final String videoId = "blabla";
YouTubePlayerView ytPlayerView = new YouTubePlayerView(activity);
view = ytPlayerView;
ytPlayerView.initialize("apikey", new OnInitializedListener() {
#Override
public void onInitializationFailure(Provider arg0, YouTubeInitializationResult arg1) {
Log.e("ArticleAdapter", "onInitializationFailure");
}
#Override
public void onInitializationSuccess(Provider provider, YouTubePlayer player, boolean wasRestored) {
Log.e("ArticleAdapter", "onInitializationSuccess");
player.cueVideo(videoId);
}
});
}
view.setTag(R.id.tag_article_part_id, articlePart.getId());
return view;
}
}
The player view initially loads (I can see a black rectangle with a "loading" image in the middle) but my app hangs and crashes shortly after that.
This is what happens:
06-11 16:44:59.495 11097-11097/app E/dalvikvm~U Could not find class 'com.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.overlay.bm', referenced from method ccgom.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.overlay.SubtitlesPreferences.<init>
06-11 16:44:59.500 11097-11097/app E/dalvikvm~U Could not find class 'android.view.accessibility.CaptioningManager', referenced from method com.google..randroid.apps.youtube.core.player.overlay.SubtitlesPreferences.c
06-11 16:44:59.545 11763-11763/? E/dalvikvm~U Could not find class 'com.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.overlay.bm', referenced from method commo.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.overlay.SubtitlesPreferences.<init>
06-11 16:44:59.545 11763-11763/? E/dalvikvm~U Could not find class 'android.view.accessibility.CaptioningManager', referenced from method com.google.annidroid.apps.youtube.core.player.overlay.SubtitlesPreferences.c
06-11 16:44:59.580 11763-11763/? E/YouTubeAndroidPlayerAPI~U apps.youtube.core.player.Director.F:521 Media progress reported outside media playback
06-11 16:44:59.635 11763-11763/? E/AndroidRuntime~U FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at com.google.android.apps.youtube.core.utils.ab.a(SourceFile:112)
at com.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.a.a.a(SourceFile:92)
at com.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.sequencer.o.a(SourceFile:212)
at com.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.sequencer.o.g(SourceFile:116)
at com.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.sequencer.o.i(SourceFile:128)
at com.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.Director.o(SourceFile:801)
at com.google.android.apps.youtube.core.player.Director.a(SourceFile:629)
at com.google.android.apps.youtube.api.ApiPlayer.b(SourceFile:297)
at com.google.android.apps.youtube.api.b.a.p.run(SourceFile:210)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4921)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1027)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:794)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
here is a link to the whole thing - no filters, just searching for "youtube" in logcat:
http://pastebin.com/6DjBbn0B
I tried using loadVideo() instead of cueVideo() and surrounding the cueVideo() in a try/catch block as suggested here https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4395 but that did not help.

Create Dialog Box For Checking Internet Connection in Android

I'm implementing to show dialog box when Internet is offline, when i run my app i got "FATAL Exception main" and ClassCastException when when i click on button and application is crash . Can someone tell me what i am doing wrong ? Thanks to you in Advanced.
here is code how i check is internet enabled or not:
public class AndroidDetectInternetConnectionActivity extends Activity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button btnStatus = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_check);
btnStatus.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if (!isOnline())
{
showNoConnectionDialog(this);
}
}
});
}
public static void showNoConnectionDialog(OnClickListener onClickListener)
{
final Context ctx = (Context) onClickListener;
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(ctx);
builder.setCancelable(true);
builder.setMessage(R.string.no_connection);
builder.setTitle(R.string.no_connection_title);
builder.setPositiveButton(R.string.settings_button_text, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
{
ctx.startActivity(new Intent(Settings.ACTION_WIRELESS_SETTINGS));
}
});
builder.setNegativeButton(R.string.cancel_button_text, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
{
return;
}
});
builder.setOnCancelListener(new DialogInterface.OnCancelListener()
{
public void onCancel(DialogInterface dialog) {
return;
}
});
builder.show();
}
public boolean isOnline()
{
ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
NetworkInfo netInfo = cm.getActiveNetworkInfo();
if (netInfo != null && netInfo.isConnectedOrConnecting())
{
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
// This is my Log Cat stack trace
11-15 11:57:19.115: D/AndroidRuntime(453): Shutting down VM
11-15 11:57:19.115: W/dalvikvm(453): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40015560)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): java.lang.ClassCastException: com.example.detectinternetconnection.AndroidDetectInternetConnectionActivity$1
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at com.example.detectinternetconnection.AndroidDetectInternetConnectionActivity.showNoConnectionDialog(AndroidDetectInternetConnectionActivity.java:99)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at com.example.detectinternetconnection.AndroidDetectInternetConnectionActivity$1.onClick(AndroidDetectInternetConnectionActivity.java:64)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2485)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:9080)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
11-15 11:57:19.122: E/AndroidRuntime(453): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
11-15 11:57:24.892: I/Process(453): Sending signal. PID: 453 SIG: 9

change this line
final Context ctx = (Context) onClickListener;
to below one
final Context ctx = AndroidDetectInternetConnectionActivity.this;
basically you are trying to conver onClickListener to Contex which is incorrect and can not be casted.
Either you directly use ActivityName.this wherever you need context instance, or define static Context ctx as a class variable and intialize it in onCreate()by just adding this line ctx =this also remember to intialize it before using it.
Enjoy

There are two ways to solve this problem.
1) showNoConnectionDialog(this); and later on:
public static void showNoConnectionDialog(Context ctx) ...
2) showNoConnectionDialog(); and later on: public void showNoConnectionDialog() { Context ctx = AndroidDetectInternetConnectionActivity.this

You basic problem is generated by the line:
final Context ctx = (Context) onClickListener;
This is simply not a context so trying to force it to be one doesn't work.
I believe that you wanted to do was pass a context (or activity) to this function (as opposed to the local unnamed OnClickListener class that you are now passing)
The easiest solution would be to simple not pass anything to the constructor and use AndroidDetectInternetConnectionActivity.this to access your valid context.

adding a counter in an android activity

I am very new to android. I have a counter on some SomeActivity, but when I get to the page corresponding to SomeActivity, my app crashes :
final TextView counter = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.laws_counter);
ImageView handDown = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.handViewDown);
counter.setText("" + 0);
I want that on click of the handown, the counter is idented by -1. Here's
handDown.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
Toast.makeText(NewsActivity.this,
"The favorite list would appear on clicking this icon",
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
setDown();
}
private void setDown() {
String count = counter.getText().toString();
int now_count = Integer.parseInt(count) +1;
counter.setText(String.valueOf(now_count));
}
});
Is this code correct ?
Update : here's the logcat
10-22 00:18:05.579: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(378): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.donnfelker.android.bootstrap/com.donnfelker.android.bootstrap.ui.NewsActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.donnfelker.android.bootstrap.ui.NewsActivity.onCreate(NewsActivity.java:41)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)
... 11 more

There are many ways that you can implement that functionality but think this would be an easy solution.
Make a helper method:
public class PreferencesData {
public static void saveInt(Context context, String key, int value) {
SharedPreferences sharedPrefs = PreferenceManager
.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);
sharedPrefs.edit().putInt(key, value).commit();
}
public static int getInt(Context context, String key, int defaultValue) {
SharedPreferences sharedPrefs = PreferenceManager
.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);
return sharedPrefs.getInt(key, defaultValue);
}
}
Then simply call the putInt method to save the counter in any Activity and getInt to get it again in any other Activity. As long as you use the same key both places.

BadTokenException even after referring to Activity and not the application context

android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token android.os.BinderProxy#406a6678 is not valid; is your activity running?
at android.view.ViewRoot.setView(ViewRoot.java:528)
at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:177)
at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:91)
at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:424)
at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:241)
at android.app.Activity.showDialog(Activity.java:2569)
at android.app.Activity.showDialog(Activity.java:2527)
at MyCode$8$4.run(MyCode.java:557)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:878)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:636)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
I am getting above exception when following code is executed. This file dialog will shown once the processing is done and progressbar reaches 100%. FileSaveDialog extends Dialog and implements OnCompletionListener
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
showDialog(error.Code());//Line 557
}
});
#Override
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
Dialog dialog;
AlertDialog.Builder builder;
final ScrollView scrollView = new ScrollView(this);
final TextView textView = new TextView(this);
switch (id) {
// Other cases are here
case 4:
File playFile = new File(mediaPath, TEMP_WAV_FILE_NAME);
dialog = new FileSaveDialog(this, getResources(),
playFile.getAbsolutePath(), saveDiscardHandler);
dialog.setOnCancelListener(new DialogInterface.OnCancelListener() {
#Override
public void onCancel(DialogInterface dialog) {
// do whatever you want the back key to do
cleanUp();
}
});
break;
// Other cases are here
default:
dialog = null;
}
return dialog;
}

You must check activity isFinishing() If the activity is finishing, returns true; else returns false.