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I’ve searched through quite a few posts, and couldn’t find quite my error. I

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I’ve searched through quite a few posts, and couldn’t find quite my error. I am attempting to get an example RSS feed reader working to understand how it works. If anyone has a better example, feel free to link. Thank you for your time.
Logcat:

10-24 16:06:47.360: I/ActivityManager(91): Start proccom.example.example.android.Rssfeed for activity com.example.example.android.Rssfeed/.MainActivity: pid=544 uid=10041 gids={3003}        
10-24 16:06:47.390: I/WindowManager(91): createSurface Window{413cf2f8 Starting com.example.example.android.Rssfeed paused=false}: DRAW NOW PENDING
10-24 16:06:47.551: W/NetworkManagementSocketTagger(91): setKernelCountSet(10041, 1) failed with errno -2
10-24 16:06:48.370: I/WindowManager(91): createSurface Window{4163f540 com.example.example.android.Rssfeed/com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.MainActivity paused=false}: DRAW NOW PENDING
10-24 16:06:48.450: D/gralloc_goldfish(544): Emulator without GPU emulation detected.
10-24 16:06:48.520: I/ActivityManager(91): Displayed com.example.example.android.Rssfeed/.MainActivity: +1s257ms
10-24 16:06:48.940: W/InputManagerService(91): Starting input on non-focused client   com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@415c36a8 (uid=10009 pid=352)
10-24 16:06:48.980: D/dalvikvm(186): GC_CONCURRENT freed 64K, 15% free 13713K/16071K, paused 33ms+15ms
10-24 16:06:49.079: W/NetworkManagementSocketTagger(91): setKernelCountSet(10009, 0) failed with errno -2
10-24 16:06:49.929: D/dalvikvm(186): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 1375K, 16% free 13617K/16071K, paused 54ms
10-24 16:06:50.049: D/dalvikvm(186): GC_CONCURRENT freed 647K, 19% free 13061K/16071K, paused 5ms+11ms
10-24 16:06:50.439: D/AndroidRuntime(544): Shutting down VM
10-24 16:06:50.439: W/dalvikvm(544): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x409961f8)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find a method parseRss(View) in the activity class com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.MainActivity for onClick handler on view class android.widget.Button with id 'readRss'
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:3026)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:3480)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:13983)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4340)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544): Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: parseRss [class android.view.View]
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at java.lang.Class.getConstructorOrMethod(Class.java:460)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at  java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:915)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:3019)
10-24 16:06:50.459: E/AndroidRuntime(544):  ... 11 more
10-24 16:06:50.501: W/ActivityManager(91):   Force finishing activity com.example.example.android.Rssfeed/.MainActivity
10-24 16:06:50.519: W/WindowManager(91): Failure taking screenshot for (180x300) to layer 21015
10-24 16:06:50.639: I/WindowManager(91): createSurface Window{415c26e8  paused=false}: DRAW NOW PENDING
10-24 16:06:50.889: I/ARMAssembler(36): generated scanline__00000077:03515104_00008001_00000000 [113 ipp] (134 ins) at [0x41c99450:0x41c99668] in 797599 ns
10-24 16:06:51.033: W/ActivityManager(91): Activity pause timeout for ActivityRecord{414aae20 com.example.example.android.Rssfeed/.MainActivity}
10-24 16:06:51.059: W/NetworkManagementSocketTagger(91): setKernelCountSet(10009, 1) failed with errno -2
10-24 16:06:51.129: D/AccountManagerService(91): bind attempt failed for Session: expectLaunch true, connected false, stats (0/0/0), lifetime 0.001, addAccount, accountType com.google, requiredFeatures null
10-24 16:06:51.159: I/WindowManager(91): createSurface Window{414b2ff0 com.android.contacts/com.android.contacts.activities.PeopleActivity paused=false}: DRAW NOW PENDING
10-24 16:06:51.219: E/AccountPromptUtils(352): Account setup error: Authenticator experienced an I/O problem
10-24 16:06:51.879: W/NetworkManagementSocketTagger(91): setKernelCountSet(10041, 0) failed with errno -2
10-24 16:06:51.879: I/dalvikvm(91): Jit: resizing JitTable from 4096 to 8192
10-24 16:06:53.709: I/Process(544): Sending signal. PID: 544 SIG: 9
10-24 16:06:54.029: I/ActivityManager(91): Process com.example.example.android.Rssfeed (pid 544) has died.
10-24 16:06:54.029: I/WindowManager(91): WIN DEATH: Window{4163f540 com.example.example.android.Rssfeed/com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.MainActivity paused=false}
10-24 16:07:01.924: W/ActivityManager(91): Activity destroy timeout for ActivityRecord{414aae20 com.example.example.android.Rssfeed/.MainActivity}
10-24 16:07:18.002: D/ExchangeService(438): Received deviceId from Email app: androidc259148960
10-24 16:07:18.002: D/ExchangeService(438): Reconciling accounts...
10-24 16:07:30.529: W/ThrottleService(91): unable to find stats for iface rmnet0
10-24 16:09:00.190: D/dalvikvm(91): GC_CONCURRENT freed 480K, 9% free 12125K/13319K, paused 6ms+10ms
10-24 16:11:40.999: D/dalvikvm(171): GC_CONCURRENT freed 456K, 6% free 10349K/10951K, paused 5ms+5ms
10-24 16:17:30.540: W/ThrottleService(91): unable to find stats for iface rmnet0: E/(): Device disconnected

Actual code

package com.example.example.android.Rssfeed;

import java.util.List;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class ReadRssFeed extends ListActivity {
    private ParseTask parseTask;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder()
        // .detectAll().penaltyLog().penaltyDeath().build());
        // StrictMode.setVmPolicy(new StrictMode.VmPolicy.Builder().detectAll()
        // .penaltyLog().penaltyDeath().build());

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        parseTask = (ParseTask) getLastNonConfigurationInstance();
        if (parseTask != null) {
            parseTask.setActivity(this);
        }
        ArrayAdapter<RssItem> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<RssItem>(this,
                R.layout.rowlayout, android.R.id.text1, RssAplication.list);
        RssAplication application = (RssAplication) getApplication();
        setListAdapter(adapter);
    }

    public void parseRss(View view) {
        Log.e("DEBUG", "parseRss");
        if (parseTask == null) {
            parseTask = new ParseTask(this);
            parseTask
                    .execute(new String[] { "http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/rss.php" });
        }

    }

    @Override
    protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    private static class ParseTask extends
            AsyncTask<String, Void, List<RssItem>> {
        private ReadRssFeed activity;

        private ParseTask(ReadRssFeed activity) {
            setActivity(activity);
        }

        public void setActivity(ReadRssFeed activity) {
            this.activity = activity;
            Log.d("DEBUG", "ParseTask's activity: " + activity);
        }

        @Override
        protected List<RssItem> doInBackground(String... params) {
            Log.d("DEBUG", "doInBackground");
            return FeedReader.parse(params[0], activity);
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(List<RssItem> list) {
            Log.w("DEBUG", "onPostExecute called");
            finishWithText(list);
        }

        @SuppressLint("NewApi")
        private void finishWithText(List<RssItem> list) {
            String text = String.valueOf(list.size());
            Log.d("DEBUG", "ParseTask done. Updating activity: " + activity
                    + ", message: " + text);
            if (activity != null) {
                activity.parseTask = null;

                TextView textView = (TextView) activity
                        .findViewById(R.id.textViewCount);
                textView.setText(text);
                @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
                ArrayAdapter<RssItem> adapter = (ArrayAdapter<RssItem>) activity
                        .getListAdapter();
                adapter.clear();
                adapter.addAll(list);
                RssAplication.list = list;
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Object onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() {
        if (parseTask != null) {
            return parseTask;
        }
        return super.onRetainNonConfigurationInstance();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        if (parseTask != null) {
            parseTask.setActivity(null);
        }
        super.onDestroy();
    }
}

There are several more .java files, but this is the one that is throwing errors, along with

package com.example.example.android.Rssfeed;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
        return true;
    }
}

Alright, did number 3, as suggested. New errors, posting code and log cat. Much appreciated for the fast response!

 package com.example.example.android.Rssfeed;

  import java.util.List;

 import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
 import android.app.ListActivity;
 import android.os.AsyncTask;
 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.util.Log;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
 import android.widget.ListView;
 import android.widget.TextView;
 import android.widget.Toast;

 public class MainActivity extends ListActivity {

private ParseTask parseTask;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder()
    // .detectAll().penaltyLog().penaltyDeath().build());
    // StrictMode.setVmPolicy(new StrictMode.VmPolicy.Builder().detectAll()
    // .penaltyLog().penaltyDeath().build());

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    parseTask = (ParseTask) getLastNonConfigurationInstance();
    if (parseTask != null) {
        parseTask.setActivity(this);
    }
    ArrayAdapter<RssItem> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<RssItem>(this,
            R.layout.rowlayout, android.R.id.text1,              RssAplication.list);
    RssAplication application = (RssAplication) getApplication();
    setListAdapter(adapter);
}

public void parseRss(View view) {
    Log.e("DEBUG", "parseRss");
    if (parseTask == null) {
        parseTask = new ParseTask(this);
        parseTask
                .execute(new String[] { "http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/rss.php" });
    }

}

@Override
protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

private static class ParseTask extends
        AsyncTask<String, Void, List<RssItem>> {
    private MainActivity activity;

    private ParseTask(MainActivity activity) {
        setActivity(activity);
    }

    public void setActivity(MainActivity activity) {
        this.activity = activity;
        Log.d("DEBUG", "ParseTask's activity: " + activity);
    }

    @Override
    protected List<RssItem> doInBackground(String... params) {
        Log.d("DEBUG", "doInBackground");
        return FeedReader.parse(params[0], activity);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(List<RssItem> list) {
        Log.w("DEBUG", "onPostExecute called");
        finishWithText(list);
    }

    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    private void finishWithText(List<RssItem> list) {
        String text = String.valueOf(list.size());
        Log.d("DEBUG", "ParseTask done. Updating activity: " + activity
                + ", message: " + text);
        if (activity != null) {
            activity.parseTask = null;

            TextView textView = (TextView) activity
                    .findViewById(R.id.textViewCount);
            textView.setText(text);
            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            ArrayAdapter<RssItem> adapter = (ArrayAdapter<RssItem>) activity
                    .getListAdapter();
            adapter.clear();
            adapter.addAll(list);
            RssAplication.list = list;
        }
    }
}

@Override
public Object onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() {
    if (parseTask != null) {
        return parseTask;
    }
    return super.onRetainNonConfigurationInstance();
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    if (parseTask != null) {
        parseTask.setActivity(null);
    }
    super.onDestroy();
}
   }

Logcat:

 10-26 12:53:26.224: D/dalvikvm(539): Not late-enabling CheckJNI (already on)
 10-26 12:53:27.254: D/AndroidRuntime(539): Shutting down VM
 10-26 12:53:27.264: W/dalvikvm(539): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x409961f8)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.example.android.Rssfeed/com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.MainActivity}: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.app.Application cannot be cast to com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.RssAplication
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at  android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1955)
  10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1980)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:122)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1146)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4340)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539): Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.app.Application cannot be cast to com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.RssAplication
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:36)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at  android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4465)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1049)
  10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):    at      android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1919)
 10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     ... 11 more
 10-26 12:58:27.543: I/Process(539): Sending signal. PID: 539 SIG: 9

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-13T08:09:47+00:00

The important information from this LogCat is:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find a method parseRss(View) 
    in the activity class com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.MainActivity 
    for onClick handler on view class android.widget.Button with id 'readRss'

Explanation

MainActivity cannot find the method parseRss() because it is in the ReadRssFeed class.

You are passing the same layout to both Activities, which is a little confusing… But inside activity_main.xml you use the attribute android:onClick="parseRss". android:onClick requires that the name provided relate to a method in the Activity that displays the layout. As I said before MainActivity doesn’t have parseRss(), hence the error.

Possible Solutions

Create two layouts, one specific to MainActivity (without android:onClick="parseRss") and another to ReadRssFeed Or
Add parseRss() to MainActivity in some way, shape, or form Or
Since MainActivity currently does nothing, you could delete it and rename ReadRssFeed to MainActivity…

Reading a LogCat

Rather than read each logcat for you and walk you step by step to a running application (which isn’t the purpose of this forum.) I’ll teach you how to read most logcats so you can solve many of these problems yourself.

Find the lowest “Caused by…”
```
10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539): Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.app.Application cannot be cast to com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.RssAplication
```
Which roughly means that you are trying to cast an object into something that it cannot become. We keep our eye out for code working with Application objects.
Work down the logcat, line-by-line, until you encounter code from one of your classes. (Here it is the first line.)
```
10-26 12:53:27.274: E/AndroidRuntime(539):     at com.example.example.android.Rssfeed.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:36)
```
This tells you the package, class, and method where the code failed. The most useful portion is the end MainActivity.java:36, this number is the exact line number where the error occurred.
Go to line 36 in MainActivity (use Ctrl+L in Eclipse). This line is the culprit:
```
RssAplication application = (RssAplication) getApplication();
```
However this is where my usefulness stops. You haven’t posted your RssAplication class so I cannot see what is happening. My first question is: does RssAplication extend Application?

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If you encounter any more problems that you just cannot solve, please ask a new question. Good luck!

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