The second one is the way its meant to be. I don't know the exact reason but its probably similar to the fact why there are no Constructors for Activities, but the onCreate()/onDestroy()/onResume() Lifecycle-Stuff.
Regards, plusminus http://anddev.org # Worlds largest Android Development Community / Tutorials On 2 Okt., 18:55, 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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
