I'm trying out the new RecyclerView
in Android Lollipop and I'm stuck.
I'm trying to receive a list, with an icon and a TextView
to the right of the icon, inside a Fragment
.
I found this great tutorial on how to set up a RecyclerView
. I have followed every point and only changed the item_layout.xml
to fit my needs.
The project builds without any errors but when it launches on my device I'm getting this error:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.fredrikaldgard.materialcolors/com.fredrikaldgard.materialcolors.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.setLayoutManager(android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$LayoutManager)' on a null object reference
I've tried to google the problem but I'm quite an amateur with Android development.
Here's my MainActivity
:
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
// 1. get a reference to recyclerView
RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.list);
// 2. set layoutManger
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
// this is data fro recycler view
ItemData itemsData[] = { new ItemData("Indigo",R.drawable.circle),
new ItemData("Red",R.drawable.color_ic_launcher),
new ItemData("Blue",R.drawable.indigo),
new ItemData("Green",R.drawable.circle),
new ItemData("Amber",R.drawable.color_ic_launcher),
new ItemData("Deep Orange",R.drawable.indigo)};
// 3. create an adapter
MyAdapter mAdapter = new MyAdapter(itemsData);
// 4. set adapter
recyclerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);
// 5. set item animator to DefaultAnimator
recyclerView.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator());
And my MyAdapter
:
public class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<MyAdapter.ViewHolder> {
private ItemData[] itemsData;
public MyAdapter(ItemData[] itemsData) {
this.itemsData = itemsData;
}
// Create new views (invoked by the layout manager)
@Override
public MyAdapter.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent,
int viewType) {
// create a new view
View itemLayoutView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext())
.inflate(R.layout.item_layout, null);
// create ViewHolder
ViewHolder viewHolder = new ViewHolder(itemLayoutView);
return viewHolder;
}
// Replace the contents of a view (invoked by the layout manager)
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder viewHolder, int position) {
// - get data from your itemsData at this position
// - replace the contents of the view with that itemsData
viewHolder.txtViewTitle.setText(itemsData[position].getTitle());
viewHolder.imgViewIcon.setImageResource(itemsData[position].getImageUrl());
}
// inner class to hold a reference to each item of RecyclerView
public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
public TextView txtViewTitle;
public ImageView imgViewIcon;
public ViewHolder(View itemLayoutView) {
super(itemLayoutView);
txtViewTitle = (TextView) itemLayoutView.findViewById(R.id.item_title);
imgViewIcon = (ImageView) itemLayoutView.findViewById(R.id.item_icon);
}
}
// Return the size of your itemsData (invoked by the layout manager)
@Override
public int getItemCount() {
return itemsData.length;
}
}
Edit: Here's the Fragment
public class ColorsFragment extends Fragment {
public ColorsFragment(){}
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_colors, container, false);
return rootView;
}
}
What has possibly gone wrong?
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