App crashes while passing Intent

Question

I have a custom dialog activity which asks user to enter OTP. I then do the normal working of OTP process by checking if it was correct and so on.

Now when i am done with it, i want to open the next activity which i am not able to open.

My code for the Custom dialog is:

public void showOTPDialog(Activity activity, String otp) {

    this.activity = activity;
    this.otp = otp;

    dialog = new Dialog(activity);
    dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    dialog.setCancelable(true);
    dialog.setContentView(R.layout.verify_otp);

    final EditText etOtp = dialog.findViewById(R.id.et_otp);
    Button verify = dialog.findViewById(R.id.bt_go);
    Button resend = dialog.findViewById(R.id.bt_resend);

    verify.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            // verify if the otp entered was correct
        }
    });

    resend.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            //send new otp
        }
    });

    dialog.show();
    Window window = dialog.getWindow();
    if (window != null) {
        window.setLayout(WindowManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
    }

}

private class insertOTP extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, String> {

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        super.onPreExecute();

        pDialog = new ProgressDialog(activity);
        pDialog.setMessage("Kindly wait...");
        pDialog.setCancelable(false);
        pDialog.show();

    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {

        try {
            // RPS for inserting few things
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return response;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String response) {
        super.onPostExecute(response);
        pDialog.dismiss();

        if (response.equals("success")) {
            Intent intent = new Intent(activity, SecondActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra("class","1");
            startActivity(intent);
        } else {
            Toast.makeText(activity, "This user already exists...", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }
}

I get an error when i try to give an intent and start SecondActivity. The error is:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.app.ActivityThread$ApplicationThread android.app.ActivityThread.getApplicationThread()' on a null object reference
    at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3918)
    at android.support.v4.app.BaseFragmentActivityApi16.startActivityForResult(BaseFragmentActivityApi16.java:54)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.startActivityForResult(FragmentActivity.java:68)
    at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3877)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.startActivityForResult(FragmentActivity.java:751)
    at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:4200)
    at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:4168)
    at com.globaltradingcompany.bhhopu.AuthenticateActivity$insertUser.onPostExecute(AuthenticateActivity.java:128)
    at com.globaltradingcompany.bhhopu.AuthenticateActivity$insertUser.onPostExecute(AuthenticateActivity.java:82)
    at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:651)
    at android.os.AsyncTask.-wrap1(AsyncTask.java)
    at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:668)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)

I tried adding AuthenticationActivity.this,getApplicationContext(),getContext() inside the first argument of Intent. None seem to work.

A little help would be appreciated. Let me know if you need anything else

try this library https://github.com/kostasdrakonakis/android_navigator — Kostas Drak, Jun 29 '18 at 12:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 28 '18 at 13:18

You can try this approach to call the second activity from the asynctask
When initializing the object of asynctask pass the current class reference as parameter

private class insertOTP extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, String> {

private Activity activity;
private ProgressDialog pDialog;

   public insertOTP(Activity activity) {
      this.activity = activity;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        super.onPreExecute();

        pDialog = new ProgressDialog(activity);
        pDialog.setMessage("Kindly wait...");
        pDialog.setCancelable(false);
        pDialog.show();

    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {

        try {
            // RPS for inserting few things
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return response;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String response) {
        super.onPostExecute(response);
        pDialog.dismiss();

        if (response.equals("success")) {
            Intent intent = new Intent(activity, SecondActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra("class","1");
            activity.startActivity(intent);
        } else {
            Toast.makeText(activity, "This user already exists...", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }
}

Tried this approach also but didn't work. I don't understand why progress dialog and toasts are taking activity properly but while passing intent it shows null object reference. — Kunal Parikh, Jun 28 '18 at 14:05
Can you please share the code from where you are passing the activity object reference in asynctask. — Maraj Hussain, Jun 28 '18 at 14:07

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 28 '18 at 14:19

0

I found the solution. I was giving the base activity's intent but starting the activity from the current activity which was causing the error.

Solution:

Intent intent = new Intent(activity, SecondActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra("class","1");
        activity.startActivity(intent);

answered Jun 28 '18 at 14:19

Kunal Parikh

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I have mentioned same in my answered... It's not a new answer.. :) – Maraj Hussain Jun 28 '18 at 20:03

App crashes while passing Intent

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