ListView with customized items

Question

i have looked at the issue closely since you guys were so confident and i found that i have typed the incorrect layout name while i was typing in the question (sorry about that)

the correct contentview i have is this:

setContentView(R.layout.main);

End Edit

i see my id in R.Java:

public static final int txtReadMore_link=0x7f06000e;

Update:

03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{net.website.playlist_activity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at net.website.playlist_activity.onCreate(playlist_activity.java:101)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
03-19 17:05:07.158: E/AndroidRuntime(1356):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)

i am trying to access textview from the custom listview and below is the code and i am getting null ref error... how can i access to the txtReadMore_link ?

show the new activity when the user click on the link.

playlist_activity

private TextView link;
@Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.list_row);

       //throwing error - NULL????
       link = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtReadMore_link);

       link.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {
        int duration = Toast.LENGTH_SHORT;
        TextView tx =(TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.txtReadMore_link); 
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(playlist_activity.this, tx.getText(), duration);
        toast.show();               
        }
    });
}

main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:divider="#b5b5b5"
        android:dividerHeight="1dp"
        android:listSelector="@drawable/list_selector"></ListView>    
</LinearLayout>

list_row.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/list_selector"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:padding="5dip" >

    <!--  ListRow Left sied Thumbnail image -->
    <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/thumbnail" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="3dip"      
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:background="@drawable/image_bg" 
        android:layout_marginRight="5dip">

        <ImageView     
            android:id="@+id/list_image"   
            android:layout_width="50dip"
            android:layout_height="50dip"
            android:src="@drawable/rihanna"/>

    </LinearLayout>

    <!-- Title Of Song-->
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/title"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignTop="@+id/thumbnail"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/thumbnail"
        android:text="Rihanna Love the way lie"
        android:textColor="#040404"
        android:typeface="sans" 
        android:textSize="15dip"
        android:textStyle="bold"/>

    <!-- Artist Name -->
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/artist"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/title"
        android:textColor="#343434"
        android:textSize="10dip"
        android:layout_marginTop="1dip"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/thumbnail"
        android:text="Just gona stand there and ..." />


       <TextView
            android:id="@+id/txtReadMore_link"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_margin="5dp" 
            android:clickable="true"
            android:text="Click here to read more.."
            android:textSize="9sp" />



</RelativeLayout>

Answer 1

just clean your project and re run it like this : in your Eclipse IDE , click Project ==> Clean ==> Check your Project ==> Press OK . and Run again your project and it will works ;)

EDIT :

you have the NullPointerException because in your method setContentView() , you have specified the layout of your activity as : main.xml

And you are trying to find a View By id which is not in your layout main.xml ( it is on your list_row.xml ) , verify that you have specified the exact layout of your Activity , or try to declare your TextView in your layout main.xml

Answer 2

I suspect you are not setting the view you think you are for your activity , ie you do

setContentView(R.layout.list_row); 

in the onCreate, where you probably meant to say

setContentView(R.layout.main); 

As txtReadMore_link is on your main.xml , and not on your list_row.xml , the code will not be able to find the view and return null.

Answer 3

You can't use findViewById() from the onCreate() method to search for a View that is in a ListView row layout. The correct way is to use a custom adapter and in the getView() method set the on click listener for that particular View . There are many question around StackOverflow regarding how to do this. Here are some tutorials:

http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidListView/article.html or http://commonsware.com/Android/excerpt.pdf