Unable to populate ListView from ArrayList

Question

ChooseCategory.java

        public class ChooseCategory extends ListActivity {
            private ListView lv;
            //ArrayAdapter<FoodStores> arrayAdapter;
            private ArrayList<FoodStores> storefoodList;
        private String URL_STORES = "http://10.0.2.2/get_stores.php";
         @Override
            protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
                 lv = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.list);
                 storefoodList = new ArrayList<FoodStores>();
                 new GetFoodStores().execute();

        }

    private class GetFoodStores extends AsyncTask<Void,Void,Void> {
            @Override
            protected void onPreExecute(){
                super.onPreExecute();
            }

            @Override
            protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
                ServiceHandlerFood jsonParserFood = new ServiceHandlerFood();
                String json = jsonParserFood.makeServiceCall(URL_STORES, ServiceHandlerFood.GET);
                Log.e("Response: ", " > " + json);
                if(json != null){
                    try{
                        JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(json);
                        if(jsonObj != null){
                            JSONArray storeListFood = jsonObj.getJSONArray("storelistfood");
                            for(int i = 0; i < storeListFood.length(); i++){
                                JSONObject storeFoodObj = (JSONObject) storeListFood.get(i);
                                FoodStores foodStores = new FoodStores(storeFoodObj.getInt("id"),storeFoodObj.getString("STORENAME"));
                                storefoodList.add(foodStores);

                            }
                        }
                    }catch(JSONException e){
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }else{
                    Log.e("JSON Data", "No data received from server");
                }
                return null;
            }
@Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void result){
            super.onPostExecute(result);
            populateListView();
        }
    }

Here is the function of my populateListView

private void populateListView(){
        List<String> labels = new ArrayList<String>();
        for(int i = 0; i < storefoodList.size(); i++){
            labels.add(storefoodList.get(i).getName());
        }
        ArrayAdapter<String> listAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,R.layout.restaurant_list,labels);
        Log.d("Labels:", labels.toString());         
        lv.setAdapter(listAdapter);    
    }

What I am trying to do here is to get the list of stores from PHP to Android via JSON and store them in ArrayList and then populate them into ListView. I have tried displaying labels , it is displaying the correct stuff.

The error from Emulator is that it just shows blank screen and then it crashes. The error from logcat is

java.lang.NullPointerException
            at call.rocket.user.callarocket.ChooseCategory.populateListView

Answer 1

Do like

ArrayAdapter<String> listAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,R.layout.restaurant_list,labels);
setListAdapter(listAdapter);

as you directly extends ListActivity also remove

 lv = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.list);

and make sure your ListView id is android:id="@android:id/list"

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