I am doing an android app and i was thinking of creating a theme option. Well all I was thinking of doing was to allow the user to click on a image button which represented a theme. And when he clicks on it I start a new activity i.e i direct him to the home page. Also i have created a few integer variables which are set to 1 when the user clicks on a button.
Then in the other classes all i do is check if the variables are 1 or not and depending on that i apply the theme. By theme i mean i just change the background wallpaper. But this is not working. I mean the code works but if use an if loop to check the variable values and then apply the effects it causes an error.
Here’s the complete code:
package com.example.themetest;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.ImageButton;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener{
ImageButton ib1;
ImageButton ib2;
int water=0;
int fire=0;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
ib1 = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.imageButton1);
ib2 = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.imageButton2);
ib1.setOnClickListener(this);
ib2.setOnClickListener(this);
}
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
switch(v.getId()){
case R.id.imageButton1:
water = 1;
Intent wi = new Intent("com.example.themetest.THEME");
startActivity(wi);
break;
case R.id.imageButton2:
fire = 1;
Intent fi = new Intent("com.example.themetest.THEME");
startActivity(fi);
break;
}
}
}
Here’s the other class where i check which variable is set to 1 and apply the effect.
package com.example.themetest;
import java.io.InputStream;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
public class Theme extends Activity{
MainActivity main;
Resources res;
Drawable drawable;
LinearLayout linearLayout;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.theme);
if(main.water==1){
res = getResources();
drawable = res.getDrawable(R.drawable.water_theme);
linearLayout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.ll);
linearLayout.setBackgroundDrawable(drawable);
}
else if(main.fire==1){
res = getResources();
drawable = res.getDrawable(R.drawable.fire_theme);
linearLayout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.ll);
linearLayout.setBackgroundDrawable(drawable);
}
else{
res = getResources();
drawable = res.getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_launcher);
linearLayout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.ll);
linearLayout.setBackgroundDrawable(drawable);
}
}
}
I can change the wallpaper without using the if loop, but i want to do it this way which is not working. Can anyone please tell me why?
Log cat:
01-15 12:08:23.339: D/dalvikvm(273): GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 767 objects / 55936 bytes in 235ms
01-15 12:08:25.539: D/AndroidRuntime(273): Shutting down VM
01-15 12:08:25.539: W/dalvikvm(273): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d800)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.themetest/com.example.themetest.Theme}: java.lang.NullPointerException
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at com.example.themetest.Theme.onCreate(Theme.java:29)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
01-15 12:08:25.559: E/AndroidRuntime(273): ... 11 more
01-15 12:08:31.089: I/Process(273): Sending signal. PID: 273 SIG: 9
You cannot access other activities variables this way, a better way (for example) is to use a constant class..
MainActivity:
Theme: