My android application crashes in emulator. The application did not open in emulator. I am working with java. It was working perfectly before i added the bottom navigation into my application. Please sort out my issue as i am new in this field. Here is the code of my main activity below.
package com.example.bottomnavigation;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AlertDialog;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import androidx.fragment.app.FragmentTransaction;
import com.example.bottomnavigation.databinding.ActivityMainBinding;
import com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
ActivityMainBinding binding;
ImageView picture, video, message, mail;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
binding = ActivityMainBinding.inflate(getLayoutInflater());
setContentView(binding.getRoot());
getSupportActionBar().hide();
binding.bottomNav.setOnNavigationItemSelectedListener(new BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {
@Override
public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(@NonNull MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()){
case R.id.first:
FragmentTransaction firsttrans = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
firsttrans.replace(R.id.frame, new HomeFragment());
firsttrans.commit();
break;
case R.id.search:
FragmentTransaction searchtrans = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
searchtrans.replace(R.id.frame, new SearchFragment());
searchtrans.commit();
break;
case R.id.exit:
new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this)
.setTitle("Exit")
.setIcon(R.drawable.exit)
.setMessage("Are you sure you want to exit")
.setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
finishAffinity();
}
}).show();
}
return true;
}
});
picture = findViewById(R.id.arham);
picture.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Pictures.class);
startActivity(intent);
}
});
}
}
Here is the logcat
2021-04-05 12:35:38.662 19375-19375/? E/ottomnavigatio: Unknown bits set in runtime_flags: 0x8000
2021-04-05 12:35:40.544 19375-19375/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example.bottomnavigation, PID: 19375
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.bottomnavigation/com.example.bottomnavigation.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void androidx.appcompat.app.ActionBar.hide()' on a null object reference
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3270)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3409)
at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:83)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2016)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void androidx.appcompat.app.ActionBar.hide()' on a null object reference
at com.example.bottomnavigation.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:27)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7802)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7791)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1299)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3245)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3409)
at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:83)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2016)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)
The exception is being thrown because you are calling hide() on a null reference to an ActionBar. Assuming that this is the relevant code, it is occurring on this line:
getSupportActionBar().hide();
If you read the javadocs (here and here) for getSupportActionBar() you will see that it returns null if the activity doesn't have an action bar. That must be happening here.
(So why is your app trying to hide the activity bar when it doesn't have one??)
It would appear that the solution is to delete the offending line. Or if there are contexts in which your app might have an action bar, change it to:
ActionBar bar = getSupportActionBar();
if (bar != null) {
bar.hide();
}