Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Android

My app stops whenever I try to run it...

Here is what I get when it closes:

10-11 11:34:35.347 1301-1301/com.example.zacharygassem.blinker E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.example.zacharygassem.blinker, PID: 1301 java.lang.RuntimeException: Your content must have a ListView whose id attribute is 'android.R.id.list' at android.support.v4.app.ListFragment.ensureList(ListFragment.java:344) at android.support.v4.app.ListFragment.onViewCreated(ListFragment.java:145) at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:956) at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1121) at android.support.v4.app.BackStackRecord.run(BackStackRecord.java:682) at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:1484) at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.executePendingTransactions(FragmentManager.java:482) at android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter.finishUpdate(FragmentPagerAdapter.java:141) at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.populate(ViewPager.java:1073) at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.populate(ViewPager.java:919) at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.onMeasure(ViewPager.java:1441) at android.view.View.measure(View.java:16497) at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5125) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:310) at android.view.View.measure(View.java:16497) at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5125) at com.android.internal.widget.ActionBarOverlayLayout.onMeasure(ActionBarOverlayLayout.java:327) at android.view.View.measure(View.java:16497) at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5125) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:310) at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.onMeasure(PhoneWindow.java:2291) at android.view.View.measure(View.java:16497) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performMeasure(ViewRootImpl.java:1916) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.measureHierarchy(ViewRootImpl.java:1113) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1295) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1000) at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:5670) at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:761) at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:574) at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:544) at android.view.Choreographer$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)

3 Answers

Your error says... "Your content must have a ListView whose id attribute is 'android.R.id.list'" . Have you given that id to your ListView?

Ben Junya
Ben Junya
12,365 Points

Can you show me the code? I appreciate the stacktrace, but I don't have any clue on why it isn't working, or what line of code is breaking it.

Sorry about the late reply (I had lots of work) I've set all the lists in my app to the id list using 'android:id/list' and it works, Thank you so much

You are welcome :)