Getting crash in Android on onResume() in my activity - Why?

Question

The error is:

Unable to resume activity: java.lang.NullPointerException

Here is the stack trace:

0 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {com.sortitapps.movies/com.sortitapps.movies.SettingsActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
1 at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:2944)
2 at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:2973)
3 at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2408)
4 at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:165)
5 at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1373)
6 at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
7 at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:194)
8 at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5391)
9 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
11 at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:833)
12 at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:600)
13 at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
14 Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
15 at com.sortitapps.movies.SettingsActivity.onResume(SettingsActivity.java:149)
16 at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnResume(Instrumentation.java:1259)
17 at android.app.Activity.performResume(Activity.java:5200)
18 at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:2931)

And here is the code. Line 149 is adapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); :

@Override
public void onResume() 
{
    super.onResume();  // Always call the superclass method first

    SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences("prefs", 0);

    int numberDesktop = settings.getInt("desktop", 0);
    Log.i("Desktop purchased:", String.valueOf(numberDesktop));

    int numberScans = settings.getInt("scanning", 0);
    Log.i("Number of scans:", String.valueOf(numberScans));

    if (settingsitems.contains("Unlock Desktop Apps") &&
            numberDesktop == 2)
    {
        settingsitems.remove("Unlock Desktop Apps");
    }

    String freeapp = getResources().getString(R.string.free_app);

    if (settingsitems.contains("Unlock Premium Features") &&
            freeapp.equals("Yes") && 
            numberScans > 10)
    {
        settingsitems.remove("Unlock Premium Features");
    }

    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

Do I need to initialize the adapter again when coming resuming?

Answer 1

Most certainly adapter is null.

Your code doesn't show how the adapter got initialized, so it could be that it wasn't initialized with a value, or it was set to null after that.