CardScrollView w/ xml layout

Question

I have read many documents and have banged my head trying to figure out why my implementation of CardScrollAdapter returns a NullPointerException in the getView() method. Turns out, I was missing setItemOnCard() - however this is now deprecated as of XE16 replaced by getPosition()

Here is what I have:

@Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        Card card = new Card(context);
        if(convertView == null){
            //Inflate the layout to hold the card
            LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
            convertView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.alert_card, parent);
        }
        //populate the view
        TextView machine = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.alertMachine);
        TextView message = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.alertMessage);
        TextView id = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.alertId);
        TextView time = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.timestamp);
        message.setText("message");
        machine.setText("machine");
        id.setText("id");
        time.setText("time");
        return card.getView(convertView, parent);

I am simply trying to load a ScrollView with a card defined in an XML layout.

Here is what the XML looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    >

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/body_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/glass_card_body_height"
        android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/glass_card_margin"
        android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/glass_card_margin"
        android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/glass_card_margin"
        tools:ignore="UselessLeaf"
        >

        <!-- Put your widgets inside this RelativeLayout. -->

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/alertMachine"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:layout_marginLeft="17dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="18dp"
            android:text="No new alert"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/alertMessage"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/alertMachine"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />

    </RelativeLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/footer_container"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom|left"
        android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/glass_card_margin"
        android:layout_marginBottom="@dimen/glass_card_footer_margin"
        android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/glass_card_margin"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        >

        <!-- The footer view will grow to fit as much content as possible while the
             timestamp view keeps a fixed width. If the footer text is too long, it
             will be ellipsized with a 40px margin between it and the timestamp. -->

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/alertId"
            android:layout_width="0dip"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
            />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/timestamp"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/glass_card_margin"
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
            />

    </LinearLayout>

</FrameLayout>

The Card object does not meet some of the requirements since I am populating the view with a JSONObject. The values that I have there are for testing which still throw an error. The error is pointing towards

message.setText("message");

Answer 1

The NPE was thrown by the TextView - setContentView() is what inflates the layout in order to find the child view objects. In this case, I set

    scrollAdapter = new AlertScrollAdapter();
    cardScroller.setAdapter(scrollAdapter);
    if(cardScroller != null && !cardScroller.isActivated()){
        setContentView(cardScroller); <------
        cardScroller.activate();

Then I inflate the XML with the child objects, using the newly inflated view to find the child view objects.

       @Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            if(convertView == null){
                Log.d(LOG_TAG, "Inflating view");
                //Inflate the layout to hold the card
                LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
                convertView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.alert_card, parent);
            }
            //populate the view
            TextView machine = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.alertMachine);
            TextView message = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.alertMessage);
            TextView id = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.alertId);
            TextView time = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.timestamp);


            if(cardList.size() != 0){
                try {
                    message.setText(cardList.get(position).getString(MESSAGE));
                    machine.setText(cardList.get(position).getString(MACHINE));
                    id.setText(cardList.get(position).getString(ID));
                    time.setText(cardList.get(position).getString(TIME));
                } catch (JSONException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }else{

            }
            return convertView;
        }

I'm returning the inflated view instead of

Card card = new Card(context);
return card.getView(convertView, parent);