Starting activity results java.lang.RuntimeExcepti

Question

I have an activity in manifest:

<activity android:name="RingdroidSelectActivity"
          android:label="@string/main_activity_label">

    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.GET_CONTENT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.OPENABLE" />
        <data android:mimeType="audio/*" />
    </intent-filter>

</activity>

When using the following code to open it:

startActivity (new Intent(getApplicationContext(), com.ringdroid.RingdroidSelectActivity.class));

I get:

06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.ringdroid/com.ringdroid.RingdroidSelectActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at com.ringdroid.RingdroidSelectActivity.onCreate(RingdroidSelectActivity.java:108)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)
06-03 09:49:32.744: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11360):     ... 11 more

Any idea?

Answer 1

You have intent.getAction()== null obviously.

Fix your line of code to:

mWasGetContentIntent = Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT.equals(intent.getAction());

Answer 2

Regarding this code:

Intent intent = getIntent(); 
mWasGetContentIntent = intent.getAction().equals( Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);

It's best practice (and common sense) when using the .equals() to put what you know not to be null on the left side, so you avoid these NullPointerExceptions. So rewrite it to be:

mWasGetContentIntent =  Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT.equals(intent.getAction());