You shouldn't do work in the constructor, because the activity class
is not initialized until onCreate() is called.
The code you quote should fail every single time the activity is
constructed.
On Oct 2, 3:55 pm, PAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems like the R.string resource is not available as early as I
> would like. The following code looks fine in Eclipse, but sometimes
> when I run it, it will sometimes throw a NullPointerException on line
> 2 (as I figured out from the log):
>
> 1. public class Foo extends Activity {
> 2. private Uri mLink =
> Uri.parse(getString(R.string.my_site_url));
> 3.
> 4. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 5. public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
> 6. super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
> 7.
> 8. Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, mLink);
> 9. startActivity(i);
> 10. }
> 11. }
>
> BUT, if I move the private member variable inside the onCreate method,
> it works every time:
>
> public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
> super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
>
> Uri link = Uri.parse(getString(R.string.my_site_url));
> Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, link);
> startActivity(i);
> }
>
> Has anyone had an experience like this, or know why this may be
> happening?
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