Question

I need to get a specific ImageView inside my GridView. I tried this, but it give a NullPointerException:

ImageView imageView = (ImageView) myGridView.getChildAt(1);
imageView.setSomething();

Can someone tell me how to fix this?
Thank you

Answer 1

I assume that you are doing this in the creation phase (onCreate(), onResume(), etc), but the Views are not drawn until after all of these “creation” methods have finished. Sadly there is no callback onFinishedDraw()…

However you can put your code in a Runnable:

Runnable tweakChild = new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        ImageView imageView = (ImageView) myGridView.getChildAt(1);
        imageView.setSomething();
    }
};

And pass this Runnable to your GridView’s Handler (inside onCreate() for example):

myGridView.post(tweakChild);