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Android

Posted by Andrew Zhang
Andrew Zhang
4,364 Points

getActionBar now returns null

After adding the style files from android.holo, I can't open the app anymore.

The problem is I'm getting a null pointer when the getActionBar is called.

Through debugging it shows:

        ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();

actionBar is null. Anyone know why this is the case?

Cheers

1 Answer

Andrew Zhang
Andrew Zhang
4,364 Points
Andrew Zhang
Andrew Zhang
4,364 Points

Ok, Solved my own problem

For anyone else having the same problem, this is what I had to do:

        android.support.v7.app.ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();

Instead of the simple getActionBar() method.

Hope this helps.