Question

I have an android program that I am making with 4 seekbars, and 4 textviews to accompany each seekbar. Right now, I am trying to make each textview’s contents equal to the integer progress of the seekbars. This is my code as it stands, and I have tried many ways to properly implement the OnSeekBarChangeListener, but LogCat still shows that it is null when sb1-sb4 sets their OnSeekBarChangeListener to OnSeekBarProgress. Please help me identify my problem 🙁

public class TippopotamusActivity extends Activity {
    SeekBar sb1;
    SeekBar sb2;
    SeekBar sb3;
    SeekBar sb4;
    TextView tv1;
    TextView tv2;
    TextView tv3;
    TextView tv4;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    tv1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
    tv2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView2);
    tv3 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView3);
    tv4 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView4);

    sb1 = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekBar1);
    sb2 = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekBar2);
    sb3 = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekBar3);
    sb4 = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekBar4);

    sb1.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(OnSeekBarProgress);
    sb2.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(OnSeekBarProgress);
    sb3.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(OnSeekBarProgress);
    sb4.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(OnSeekBarProgress);

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
}

OnSeekBarChangeListener OnSeekBarProgress =
        new OnSeekBarChangeListener() {

        public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar s, int progress, boolean touch){
            if(s.getId() == R.id.seekBar1)
            {
                tv1.setText(progress);
            }
            else if(s.getId() == R.id.seekBar2)
            {
                tv2.setText(progress);
            }
            else if(s.getId() == R.id.seekBar3)
            {
                tv3.setText(progress);
            }
            else
            {
                tv4.setText(progress);
            }
        }

        public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar s){

        }

        public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar s){

        }
        };

Answer 1

Move your setContentView(R.layout.main); before initializing your variables. Your onCreate method should look like this

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    tv1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
    tv2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView2);
    tv3 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView3);
    tv4 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView4);

    sb1 = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekBar1);
    sb2 = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekBar2);
    sb3 = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekBar3);
    sb4 = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekBar4);

    sb1.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(OnSeekBarProgress);
    sb2.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(OnSeekBarProgress);
    sb3.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(OnSeekBarProgress);
    sb4.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(OnSeekBarProgress);
}