Question

I am working on a VCard application. here I have started Default Contacts activity(Address Book).

Now, the flow of application is like this,

• User Launches the application.
• Default contact book is opened.
• User selects a contact from the list and then a Vcard of the selected contact is created.

Now, when the user presses Back Button without selecting any contact, the app gets force closed.

I have overidden BackKeyPress() event, but its not working. The app is still getting force closed.

I am posting the code for reference,

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
        startActivityForResult(intent, 1);
        Log.d("In Oncreate", "Activity Result");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
         if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
         //preventing default implementation previous to android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.ECLAIR
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Back Pressed", 5000).show();
             finish();
         return true;
         }
         return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);    
    }
    @Override
    public void onActivityResult(int reqCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
      super.onActivityResult(reqCode, resultCode, data);

      switch (reqCode) {
        case (1) :
            counter = "Yes";
    Log.d("My Tag", data.getExtras().keySet().toString());
    name_selected = data.getExtras().getString("android.intent.extra.shortcut.NAME");
    Log.d("My Tag", name_selected));
    Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), BusinessCardActivity.class);
    i.putExtra("name", name_selected);
    i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    getApplicationContext().startActivity(i);
       }
    }
}

Logcat Errors:-

12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456): java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=1, result=0, data=null} to activity {com.android.business/com.android.business.ReadContacts}: java.lang.NullPointerException
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:2536)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:2578)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2000(ActivityThread.java:117)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:961)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3729)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:874)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:632)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at com.android.business.ReadContacts.onActivityResult(ReadContacts.java:133)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:3908)
12-17 18:41:09.399: E/AndroidRuntime(23456):    at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:2532)

Here the user is supposed to select a contact from the list, but if the user presses back button without selecting any contact, the app gets force closed.

Answer 1

In your OnActivityResult() do this..

 @Override
  public void onActivityResult(int reqCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
  super.onActivityResult(reqCode, resultCode, data);

  switch (reqCode) {
    case (1) :
     if (data != null && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        counter = "Yes";
    // Do some operations on the selected contact
     }
   }
}