Android - error opening trace file: No such file or directory

Question

I'm getting a weird list of errors, some seemingly disconnected but I have no way to tell as I can't even get my App to load to debug. It's a very simple app, 3 radio buttons in a radio group and each one will trigger a different song to play.

I will start by posting my Manifest, my activity file, and layout then post the error log.

Manifest:

    <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.cis298.lab2"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

        <activity 
            android:label = "@string/app_name"
            android:name = ".LayoutActivity">
            <intent-filter >
                <action android:name = "android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name = "android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

            </intent-filter>
            ></activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

LayoutActivity:

package com.cis298.lab2;

import java.io.IOException;

import com.cis298.lab2.R;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.widget.RadioGroup;

public class LayoutActivity extends Activity {

    int song;
    MediaPlayer mediaplayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, song);

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.layout);
        try {
            mediaplayer.prepare();
        } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        RadioGroup radgrp = (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.radiogroup);
        radgrp.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() {

            @Override
            public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
                switch (checkedId){
                case R.id.dance:
                    song = R.raw.redalert;
                    mediaplayer.start();
                    break;
                case R.id.rap:
                    song = R.raw.cannedheat;
                    break;
                case R.id.rock:
                    song = R.raw.movmou8105;
                    break;}
            }
        });
    }
}

layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

   <RadioGroup
       android:id="@+id/radiogroup"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="match_parent"
       android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
       android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
       android:orientation="vertical" >

       <RadioButton
           android:id="@+id/rock"
           android:layout_width="wrap_content"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:text="Play Rock" />

       <RadioButton
           android:id="@+id/rap"
           android:layout_width="wrap_content"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:text="Play Rap" 
           android:checked="true"/>

       <RadioButton
           android:id="@+id/dance"
           android:layout_width="fill_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:text="Play Dance"
           android:textAlignment="center" />

   </RadioGroup>

</RelativeLayout>

Log:

02-21 20:34:05.044: D/AndroidRuntime(322): Shutting down VM 02-21 20:34:05.044: W/dalvikvm(322): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d800) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.cis298.lab2/com.cis298.lab2.LayoutActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2585) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.content.ContextWrapper.getResources(ContextWrapper.java:80) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.media.MediaPlayer.create(MediaPlayer.java:641) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at com.cis298.lab2.LayoutActivity.(LayoutActivity.java:15) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at java.lang.Class.newInstanceImpl(Native Method) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:1429) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1021) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2577) 02-21 20:34:05.094: E/AndroidRuntime(322): ... 11 more

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Solution

Try moving mediaplayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, song); to inside onCreate().

Since the Activity isn't fully initialized until onCreate(), this may be the cause of the NPE.

However, the next problem is that you create the MediaPlayer with song being initially 0 (int has a default value of 0 when it is an instance variable). So if moving MediaPlayer.create solves this NPE, the next error will be something about not being able to find the resource. Therefore, call MediaPlayer.create once song holds on to something useful.

Maybe something like this will work.

public class LayoutActivity extends Activity {

  int song;
  MediaPlayer mediaPlayer;

  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.layout);

    RadioGroup radgrp = (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.radiogroup);
    radgrp.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() {

      @Override
      public void onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup group, int checkedId) {
        switch (checkedId){
          case R.id.dance:
            song = R.raw.redalert;
            break;
          case R.id.rap:
            song = R.raw.cannedheat;
            break;
          case R.id.rock:
            song = R.raw.movmou8105;
            break;
        }


        mediaplayer = MediaPlayer.create(LayoutActivity.this, song);
        try {
          mediaplayer.prepare();
          mediaplayer.start();
        } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          e.printStackTrace();
        }
      }
    });
  }
}

And if song isn't used anywhere else, you can keep it in the scope of onCheckedChanged().

Comments

[Jarryd Goodman]

This was my issue (having to move it into the onCreate method). Also, it is taking me 5+ minutes to upload the APK everytime. I looked into it and people were complaining about 90 seconds so something must be really wrong, any idea?

[A--C]

We've all been new, and your question was nice and detailed :-) with new users, I always link to that meta question if they said my answer right since not all are familiar with how all of SO works. Anyways, welcome!