I get a force close when I set a string array with ListView

Question

I am making a list view, I would like it to show stuff from a String Array. Here is my Scanner class:

package com.rezoluz.planesim;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Scanner {

    public ArrayList<String> gameList;
    public String[] gameListFin;

    public void getFiles() {
        gameList.add("testo7r");
        gameList.add("test5or");
        gameList.add("te4stor");
        gameList.add("tes3tor");
        gameList.add("testo2r");
        gameListFin = gameList.toArray(new String[gameList.size()]);
    }

}

Here is my ShortcutListActivty class:

package com.rezoluz.planesim;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;

public class ShortcutListActivity extends Activity {

    Scanner scanner = new Scanner();

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.shortcuts_list);

        scanner.getFiles();
        ListView listView = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.shortcutsList);
        listView.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, scanner.gameListFin));
    }

}

But when I open ShortcutsListActivity up, it force closes, here is the logcat.

04-20 15:29:24.343: D/AndroidRuntime(17039): Shutting down VM 04-20
 15:29:24.343: W/dalvikvm(17039): threadid=1: thread exiting with
 uncaught exception (group=0x4001d7e8) 04-20 15:29:24.478:
 E/AndroidRuntime(17039): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 04-20 15:29:24.478:
 E/AndroidRuntime(17039): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start
 activity
 ComponentInfo{com.rezoluz.planesim/com.rezoluz.planesim.ShortcutListActivity}:
 java.lang.NullPointerException 04-20 15:29:24.478:
 E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
 04-20 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
 04-20 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125) 04-20
 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):     at
 android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
 04-20 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 04-20
 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):     at
 android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 04-20 15:29:24.478:
 E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627) 04-20
 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):     at
 java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 04-20
 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):     at
 java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 04-20 15:29:24.478:
 E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:858)
 04-20 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616) 04-20
 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):     at
 dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 04-20 15:29:24.478:
 E/AndroidRuntime(17039): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 04-20 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 com.rezoluz.planesim.Scanner.getFiles(Scanner.java:11) 04-20
 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):     at
 com.rezoluz.planesim.ShortcutListActivity.onCreate(ShortcutListActivity.java:19)
 04-20 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
 04-20 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   at
 android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
 04-20 15:29:24.478: E/AndroidRuntime(17039):   ... 11 more

I can see it is referencing to this: gameList.add("testo7r"); and this and this scanner.getFiles(); but I don't see the problem in there, please help! Thanks for your time and help, zeokila.

Answer 1

you forgot initialisation.. so it must a null pointer exception...

public class Scanner {

    public ArrayList<String> gameList = new ArrayList<String>();
    public String[] gameListFin;

    public void getFiles() {
        gameList.add("testo7r");
        gameList.add("test5or");
        gameList.add("te4stor");
        gameList.add("tes3tor");
        gameList.add("testo2r");
        gameListFin = gameList.toArray(new String[gameList.size()]);
    }

}