Getting null in MenuInflater Android using Latest SupportVersion
actionbarsherlock, android, android-actionbar, android-actionbar-compat
Solution
Thank you beworker for your help.
For all those who are looking for answer.
Its in the Menu XML thats causing the Null Pointer Exception. Changed android:actionLayout to app:actionLayout.
Earlier:
<item
android:id="@+id/badge"
android:actionLayout="@layout/actionbar_badge_layout"
android:icon="@drawable/btn_star_off_disabled_holo_light"
android:showAsAction="always|withText">
Changed to:
<item
android:id="@+id/badge"
yourapp:actionLayout="@layout/actionbar_badge_layout"
android:icon="@drawable/btn_star_off_disabled_holo_light"
yourapp:showAsAction="always|withText">
Problem
I am trying to create a badge like view in the Action bar. (Using the latest support library). I am trying the following way. But its saying null pointer exception. ``` public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.activity_dashboard_menu, menu); MenuItem textBadge = menu.findItem(R.id.badge); RelativeLayout badgeLayout = (RelativeLayout) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(textBadge); TextView tv = (TextView) badgeLayout.findViewById(R.id.actionbar_notifcation_textview); tv.setText("12"); return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); } ``` Menu.xml is ``` <item android:id="@+id/badge" android:actionLayout="@layout/actionbar_badge_layout" android:icon="@drawable/btn_star_off_disabled_holo_light" android:showAsAction="always|withText"> </item> ``` and the Layout.xml is ``` <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="48dp" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_gravity="right" > <!-- Menu Item Image --> <ImageView android:layout_width="48dp" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:clickable="true" android:src="@drawable/btn_star_off_disabled_holo_light" /> <!-- Badge Count --> <TextView android:id="@+id/actionbar_notifcation_textview" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:padding="5dp" android:text="99" android:textColor="#ffffff" /> </RelativeLayout> ``` And here is my Log: ``` 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): java.lang.NullPointerException 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at com.activities.DashboardActivity.onCreateOptionsMenu(DashboardActivity.java:617) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at android.app.Activity.onCreatePanelMenu(Activity.java:2158) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onCreatePanelMenu(FragmentActivity.java:224) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity.superOnCreatePanelMenu(ActionBarActivity.java:232) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivityDelegateBase$1.run(ActionBarActivityDelegateBase.java:70) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3687) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:842) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:600) 01-22 09:12:45.439: E/AndroidRuntime(4819): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) ```