Action bar search error (Android) null error

Question

I am not sure why it is displayed as zero if it has to do something with a fragment, fragment header or box, since it is in the main action of where this fragment is extracted from.

Here is my xml menu item:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" > <item android:id="@+id/action_search" android:title="@string/action_search" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search" app:showAsAction="always" app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView" /> </menu> 

Here is the code snippet:

 public class BrowseFragment extends Fragment { //action bar expands to search //search - keyword or tab search, title //include popular - same algorithm as home //show categories //category click takes you to grid activity //adapter with custom model private CategoryViewerAdapter adapter; //list with custom model private List<CategoryItem> categoriesList; //List view private ListView categoryListView; //SearchView private SearchView search; @Override public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) { inflater.inflate(R.menu.browse, menu); //find the menu item and set search view at the same time search = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.action_search).getActionView(); //to always show the search view - to include this must implement it above search.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() { @Override public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) { return false; } @Override public boolean onQueryTextChange(String s) { return false; } }); search.setIconified(false); super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu,inflater); } @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_browse, container, false); //Allows menu options in fragment setHasOptionsMenu(true); //Set adapter for multi-select model and adapter adapter = new CategoryViewerAdapter(getActivity(), getSingleCategory()); categoryListView = (ListView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.categoryListView); categoryListView.setAdapter(adapter); return rootView; } //call to retrieve list private List<CategoryItem> getSingleCategory() { //initiate new list categoriesList = new ArrayList<CategoryItem>(); //called to get string array Resources res = getResources(); String[] categories = res.getStringArray(R.array.categories); //loop through string array for (String category : categories) { categoriesList.add(get(category)); } return categoriesList; } //call model to set names and methods for each item private CategoryItem get(String name) { return new CategoryItem(name); } } 

A null pointer error points to this line:

 search.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() { 

Here is the error log:

 03-03 02:50:33.590 15744-15744/? E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.example.app, PID: 15744 java.lang.NullPointerException at com.example.app.BrowseFragment.onCreateOptionsMenu(BrowseFragment.java:64) at android.app.Fragment.performCreateOptionsMenu(Fragment.java:1780) at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.dispatchCreateOptionsMenu(FragmentManager.java:1927) at android.app.Activity.onCreatePanelMenu(Activity.java:2539) at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.preparePanel(PhoneWindow.java:436) at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.doInvalidatePanelMenu(PhoneWindow.java:800) at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$1.run(PhoneWindow.java:221) at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:761) at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:574) at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:543) at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:747) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 

Answer 1

Do you use Proguard? If so, make sure you have a rule that supports the android.support.v7.widget.SearchView class.

For example, to save everything in all versions of the support library, add:

 -keep class android.support.** { *; } -keep interface android.support.** { *; } 

into your proguard-rules.txt file.

Answer 2

I had the same problem. My solution was on the menu.

I have had:

 app:actionViewClass="android.support.v4.widget.SearchView" 

when i should have

 app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"