This is what I am doing: In a ListActivity (NOT a ListFragment): Intent i

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This is what I am doing: In a ListActivity (NOT a ListFragment): Intent i

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This is what I am doing:

In a ListActivity (NOT a ListFragment):

Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MyFragmentActivity.class);
i.putExtra("name", items.get(arg2));
startActivity(i);

Then in MyFragmentActivity (using support library):

  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.fragment_layout);

    this.initialiseTabHost(savedInstanceState);
    if (savedInstanceState != null) {
        mTabHost.setCurrentTabByTag(savedInstanceState.getString("tab"));

        RateFrag rate = new RateFrag();
        rate.setArguments(getIntent().getExtras());
        getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(android.R.id.content, rate).commit();

    }

    this.intialiseViewPager();
}

Then in Rate Fragment:

 public class RateFrag extends Fragment {

  public static RateFrag newInstance(CharSequence name) {
    RateFrag f = new RateFrag();
    Bundle args = new Bundle();
    args.putCharSequence("name", name);
    f.setArguments(args);
    return f;
}

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    Item = getArguments().getString("name");

}



@Override
public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);

    title = (TextView) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.tvRateItem);
    ratingsBar = (RatingBar) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.theRatingBar);

    title.setText(Item);

}

 // stuff!

 }

So I am essentially trying to pass an “extra” from the original ListActivity into a textview in the Fragment in the last line of code above.

This is what I get in LogCat when I click on the ListItem:

07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788): java.lang.NullPointerException
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at com.---.---.RateFrag.onCreate(RateFrag.java:61)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:834)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.performPendingDeferredStart(FragmentManager.java:768)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.setUserVisibleHint(Fragment.java:746)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter.setPrimaryItem(FragmentPagerAdapter.java:128)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.populate(ViewPager.java:802)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.onMeasure(ViewPager.java:1016)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15172)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:833)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:574)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15172)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:4814)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:310)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15172)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:4814)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1390)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:681)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:574)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15172)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:4814)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:310)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15172)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:833)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:574)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15172)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:4814)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:310)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.onMeasure(PhoneWindow.java:2148)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15172)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performMeasure(ViewRootImpl.java:1848)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.measureHierarchy(ViewRootImpl.java:1100)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1273)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:998)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:4212)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:725)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:555)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:525)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:711)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
07-09 19:12:39.998: E/AndroidRuntime(1788):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Converting my app to use Fragments is driving me nuts! Admittedly, the final product is much better looking, its complexity is extremely frustrating. Can someone point me in the right direction to see where I am failing?

EDIT: Here is my Tab Layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <TabHost
        android:id="@android:id/tabhost"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        >
        <LinearLayout
            android:orientation="vertical"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            >

            <TabWidget
                android:id="@android:id/tabs"
                android:orientation="horizontal"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="0"
                />

            <FrameLayout
                android:id="@android:id/tabcontent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="0"/>

            <FrameLayout
                android:id="@+android:id/content"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"/>
        </LinearLayout>
    </TabHost>
</LinearLayout>

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-07T08:04:45+00:00

Editorial Team

2026-06-07T08:04:45+00:00Added an answer on June 7, 2026 at 8:04 am

The problem is that you are attempting to instantiate two Fragment‘s here… one is being inflated from fragment_layout.xml, and the other is being instantiated programatically and placed on screen with a FragmentTransaction.

Pick only one of these two means of instantiating your Fragment… whichever option best suits the situation (I can’t tell from the minimal code you have provided).

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