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I am new to Android Studio. I tried to execute "Hello World!" code using android nougat 7.1.1 and got this error:

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.myfirstapp.myapplication, PID: 5369 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.myfirstapp.myapplication/com.myfirstapp.myapplication.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton.setOnClickListener(android.view.View$OnClickListener)' on a null object reference at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2665) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2726) at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(ActivityThread.java) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1477) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6119) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:886) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:776) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton.setOnClickListener(android.view.View$OnClickListener)' on a null object reference at com.myfirstapp.myapplication.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:22) at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6679) at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1118) at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2618) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2726)  at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(ActivityThread.java)  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1477)  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6119)  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:886)  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:776)  Application terminated.

What should I do?

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You will have to assign the Fab from your xml layout to your Fab in java reference. It is saying you are trying to set an OnClickListener to an object that has no value yet or a "null" value.

android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton.setOnClickListener(android.view.View$OnClickListener)' on a null object reference at

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