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Android Android Activity Lifecycle The Activity Lifecycle Retrieving Instance State

Imran Asif
Imran Asif
7,514 Points

App crash on screen rotation after copying properties set text and set colors in onRestoreInstance method

App crash on screen rotation after copying properties set text and set colors in onRestoreInstance method. it giving error:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.TextView.setText(java.lang.CharSequence)' on a null object reference at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2984)

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points

We would need to see the code in question to diagnose what went wrong.