I am building an application. When I click a button it should popup a window with a videoview and a video plays in it. so i used a popup.xml
layout file with a linear layout, video video in it. In MyActivity
I have created the following mentioned popup function. When I called showVideoPopup()
i'm getting the following errors.
The following is showVideoPopup()
popup function
private void showVideoPopup()
{
LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View customView = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.dispensing_intro,null);
//instantiate popup window
dispense_intro_popup = new PopupWindow(customView, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
//display the popup window
dispense_intro_popup.showAtLocation(dispense_intro_view, Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
VideoView video = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.dispense_intro);
Uri videoUri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/raw/"+ R.raw.dispense_intro);
video.setVideoURI(videoUri);
video.start();
video.setOnCompletionListener(this);
}
The popup layout XML is the following
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="@+id/dispense_intro_holder">
<VideoView
android:id="@+id/dispense_intro"
android:layout_width="640dp"
android:layout_height="360dp" />
</LinearLayout>
The following is the detailed error
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not execute method for android:onClick
at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatViewInflater$DeclaredOnClickListener.onClick(AppCompatViewInflater.java:402)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:7140)
at android.view.View.performClickInternal(View.java:7117)
at android.view.View.access$3500(View.java:801)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:27351)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatViewInflater$DeclaredOnClickListener.onClick(AppCompatViewInflater.java:397)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:7140)
at android.view.View.performClickInternal(View.java:7117)
at android.view.View.access$3500(View.java:801)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:27351)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.VideoView.setVideoURI(android.net.Uri)' on a null object reference
at com.myapp.adapp.MyActivity.showSortPopup(MyActivity.java:252)
at com.myapp.adapp.MyActivity.dispense(MyActivity.java:174)
Please don't mark it as duplicate. Could you please explain the issue and solve it in this scenario