Android NullPointerException when trying to display an intent message for an activity

Question

I see a run time error at this line of code

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);

textView.setText(message);

exception I am getting,

error:Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.TextView.setText(java.lang.CharSequence)' on a null object reference 

Answer 1

Have you done setcontentview(R.layout.xxx)?

Either you havent done this or you dont have a view called textView in your layout. You can post more code.