So, I decided to learn to write Android apps. I prefer learning by writing code so I setup my environment and dived in to Android!
And hit my head :)
I am trying to add import RelativeLayout as TableRows to a Table view.
This is my table layout which I want to re-use,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/upload_list_table"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:stretchColumns="*" >
</TableLayout>
I included it i my my main activity with
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/home_activity"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<include android:id="@+id/homeActivityUploadList" layout="@layout/upload_list_table" />
</LinearLayout>
Then, I created my Row with RelativeLayout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/upload_list_table_row_relative"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
android:padding="6dip" >
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/fileThumb"
android:layout_width="90px"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:padding="2px"
android:src="@drawable/nothumb" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/fileDescription"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="26dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="@id/fileThumb"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="Desc" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/fileTitle"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="@id/fileDescription"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignWithParentIfMissing="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="@id/fileThumb"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="Title" />
</RelativeLayout>
Now, I am trying this
public class HomeActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.home_activity);
TableLayout tbl = (TableLayout)findViewById(R.id.homeActivityUploadList);
RelativeLayout row = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.layout.upload_list_table_row_relative);
tbl.addView(row);
}
But, i get NullPointerException. It can't find
RelativeLayout row = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.layout.upload_list_table_row_relative);
I've also tried
RelativeLayout row = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.upload_list_table_row_relative);
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Log output
01-24 11:30:15.757: D/dalvikvm(1625): GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 46K, 53% free 2539K/5379K, external 1625K/2137K, paused 68ms
01-24 11:30:15.877: D/dalvikvm(1625): GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 1K, 53% free 2538K/5379K, external 2250K/2810K, paused 58ms 01-24 11:30:15.967: D/AndroidRuntime(1625): Shutting down VM 01-24 11:30:15.967: W/dalvikvm(1625): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40015560) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.*.HomeActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:1821) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.widget.TableLayout.addView(TableLayout.java:403) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:1808) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.widget.TableLayout.addView(TableLayout.java:394) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at com.*.onCreate(HomeActivity.java:23) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611) 01-24 11:30:15.977: E/AndroidRuntime(1625): ... 11 more
android:ellipsize=