Why is this TextView null?

Question

So I'm trying to update a textview from another class. However,whenever I'm calling the method, It seems the textview is null?

I have no idea why that would be the case.

Here is the relevant code

MediaPlayerService:

@Override
    public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
        UI = new MediaPlayerUI();
        mp.start();
            int minutesDuration = mp.getDuration() / 6000;
            int secondsDuration = (mp.getDuration() % 6000) / 1000;
            UI.setDurationText(minutesDuration,secondsDuration);
            UI.setProgressBarVisibility(0);
            UI.setPauseButtonVisibility(1);
            UI.playback();

    }

MediaPlayerUI:

public class MediaPlayerUI extends MediaPlayerFragment {


public MediaPlayerUI(){

}
public void setSeekBarProgress(int position){
    seekBar.setProgress(position);
}
public void setSeekBarMax(int max){
    seekBar.setMax(max);
}

public int getSeekBarProgress(){
    return seekBar.getProgress();
}

public void setDurationText(int minutes, int seconds){

}

public void setProgressBarVisibility(int code){
    if(code == 0){
        progressBar.setVisibility(ProgressBar.GONE);
    }else{
        progressBar.setVisibility(ProgressBar.VISIBLE);
    }
}

public void setPauseButtonVisibility(int code){
    if(code == 0){
        pauseButton.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    }else{
        pauseButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }
}

MediaPlayerFragment:

 @Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                         Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_media_player, container, false);
    mSeriesImage = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.series_image);
    progressBar = (ProgressBar) v.findViewById(R.id.progress_bar);
    seekBar = (SeekBar) v.findViewById(R.id.seek_bar);
    playButton = (ImageButton) v.findViewById(R.id.play_button);
    pauseButton = (ImageButton) v.findViewById(R.id.pause_button);
    messageTitle = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.message_title);
    seriesTitle = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.series_name);
    mProgressText = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.progress_text);
    mDurationText = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.duration_text);
    mNoAudioText = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.no_audio_text);



    mNoAudioText.setVisibility(v.GONE);
    playButton.setVisibility(v.GONE);
    pauseButton.setVisibility(v.GONE);

    mAudioURL = getArguments().getString(Keys.AUDIO_URL_KEY);
    mModel = getArguments().getParcelable(Keys.INTENT_SERIES_MODEL_OBJECT_KEY);
    mPosition = getArguments().getInt(Keys.POSTION_KEY);
    messageTitle.setText(mModel.getmMessageTitle().get(mPosition));
    seriesTitle.setText(mModel.getmSeriesName());


    Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), MediaPlayerService.class);
    intent.putExtra(Keys.INTENT_SERIES_MODEL_OBJECT_KEY,mModel);
    intent.putExtra(Keys.POSTION_KEY,mPosition);
    intent.putExtra(Keys.AUDIO_URL_KEY,mAudioURL);
    getActivity().bindService(intent, mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);

    seekBar.setEnabled(true);

    return v;
}
public void setDurationTextView(int minutes,int seconds){
    Log.i(TAG,"mDurationText...."+mDurationText);

}

Log Output:

10-29 20:25:00.091 26349-26349/com.tubbs.citychurchob   I/MediaPlayerFragment: mDurationText....null

Also, if I call the method directly inside MediaPlayerFragment, the method does NOT return a null value.

I'm really just shooting in the dark on how to update the UI from a Service so any helpful advice on that would be great also. Thank you.

Answer 1

Because it's not guaranteed that the TextView is already created or not when you are calling setDurationText().

In that case you can register a broadcast receiver in your fragment and then send broadcast from the service

 IntentFilter intentFilter = new IntentFilter();
 intentFilter.addAction("update_media_ui"); 
 updateMediaUiReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {

            @Override
            public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
                // Get the data here and then set the text if 
                // the TextView is not null or save the data first 
                // and set it later if the TextView is null.
            }
        };
 registerReceiver(updateMediaUiReceiver, intentFilter);

and then you also need to unregister the receiver in Fragment onDestroy()

unregisterReceiver(updateMediaUiReceiver);

This is how to send broadcast from service

Intent serviceIntent = new Intent();
serviceIntent.setAction("update_media_ui");
this.sendBroadcast(serviceIntent);