i added a sleep timer to close the app after a specified time entered by the user, everything is ok but when the time finishes the app crashes instead of just close. i have a class for the sleep timer and i added the code for closing the app as showing below. it is System.exit(0); is there is another thing to do to avoid the app crash.?
private void startTimer() {
mEndTime = System.currentTimeMillis() + mTimeLeftInMillis;
mCountDownTimer = new CountDownTimer(mTimeLeftInMillis, 1000) {
@Override
public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
mTimeLeftInMillis = millisUntilFinished;
updateCountDownText();
}
@Override
public void onFinish() {
android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid());
System.exit(0);
}
}.start();
mTimerRunning = true;
updateWatchInterface();
}
when the timer finishes the countdown the app crashes instead of close and I saw below error in android studio Logcat.
**com.elmondal.radiomisr:serviceProcess E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.elmondal.radiomisr:serviceProcess, PID: 22920
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service com.elmondal.radiomisr.service.PlayerService@2112053 with null: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String android.content.Intent.getStringExtra(java.lang.String)' on a null object reference
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:3686)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1600(ActivityThread.java:199)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1681)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6669)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String android.content.Intent.getStringExtra(java.lang.String)' on a null object reference
at com.elmondal.radiomisr.service.PlayerService.onStartCommand(**PlayerService.java**:62)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:3667)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1600(ActivityThread.java:199)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1681)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6669)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)**
in the above error, there is a link for the onStartcommand in the playerservise.JAVA, when i click it it show me below code in the playerservise.JAVA.
@RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN)
@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
streamUrl = intent.getStringExtra(AppConstants.STREAM_URL);
channelName = intent.getStringExtra(AppConstants.CHANNEL_NAME);
startPlayer(channelName, streamUrl);
pushServiceToForeground();
initializePhoneStateListener();
playerService = this;
return START_STICKY;
}