java.lang.NullPointerException at android.widget.TabHost.dispatchWindowFocusChanged(TabHost.java:298)

Lots of users of my program reports "Force Close" on the same error and I can't reproduce the bug so it's hard to debug!

It seems it’s in relation with TabHost (I’ve got two in my application)

For now I’ve tried to extends TabHost overriding dispatchWindowFocusChanged() and testing if getCurrentView() returns null… if so I setCurrentTab() to the last known tab index. But I don’t know if this will do the trick...

Does anyone have any clue about this report?

java.lang.NullPointerException
at android.widget.TabHost.dispatchWindowFocusChanged(TabHost.java:298)
at android.widget.TabHost.dispatchWindowFocusChanged(TabHost.java:302)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchWindowFocusChanged(ViewGroup.java:662)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchWindowFocusChanged(ViewGroup.java:662开发者_Go百科)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchWindowFocusChanged(ViewGroup.java:662)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchWindowFocusChanged(ViewGroup.java:662)
at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1946)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:858)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

And here is the TabHost layout :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
  android:id="@+id/main_layout"
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  android:orientation="vertical">
  <TabHost
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@android:id/tabhost"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <LinearLayout
      android:id="@+id/airport_linear"
      android:orientation="vertical"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent">
      <TabWidget
        android:id="@android:id/tabs"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
      <FrameLayout
        android:id="@android:id/tabcontent"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"  />
    </LinearLayout>
  </TabHost>
</LinearLayout>

Call setup() before adding tabs if loading TabHost using findViewById(). However: You do not need to call setup() after getTabHost() in TabActivity. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TabHost.html#setup()

try to extend TabActivity just like

public class TabsExampleActivity extends TabActivity{
   @Override 
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
          super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
          setContentView(R.layout.main_tabhost_layout);

          TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();
          ...
   }
}

I hope this could help

Run into this today on 2.2

be sure you do

mTabHost = (TabHost) findViewById(R.id.tabhost);
mTabHost.setup();

this fixed it.