java.lang.NullPointerException at android.content.ContextWrapper.getPackageName ANDROID

Question

Hey I want to start an Activity from my MainActivity but not in the oncreate method.

public void awe()
{
    Intent myIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Awesome.class);
    MainActivity.this.startActivity(myIntent);
}

Another class calls the method awe() and what I get is a crash and

05-25 04:06:51.034: E/AndroidRuntime(7161): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
05-25 04:06:51.034: E/AndroidRuntime(7161): java.lang.NullPointerException
05-25 04:06:51.034: E/AndroidRuntime(7161):     at android.content.ContextWrapper.getPackageName(ContextWrapper.java:151)
05-25 04:06:51.034: E/AndroidRuntime(7161):     at android.content.ComponentName.<init>(ComponentName.java:106)
05-25 04:06:51.034: E/AndroidRuntime(7161):     at android.content.Intent.<init>(Intent.java:2895)
05-25 04:06:51.034: E/AndroidRuntime(7161):     at package name.MainActivity.awe(MainActivity.java:215)

Someone knows what I can do?

MainActivity

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener { 
// (variable stuff)
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

          buttonE = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonEASY); 
          buttonM = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonMED);

// here I do all that button stuff for the layout
}



    public void onClick(View arg0) {
        System.out.println("click");
        if (arg0==buttonE)  {

                 int checkedRadioButton = radioGroup1.getCheckedRadioButtonId();
                                 String radioButtonSelected = "";

                                 switch (checkedRadioButton) {

                                  case R.id.radio0 : radioButtonSelected = "radiobutton1";
                                  Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Easy, 10 selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                                  setContentView(R.layout.raten);

// Button stuff, again.


}



public void awe()
{   Intent tutorial = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Awesome.class); 
    if (tutorial != null) { startActivity(tutorial); } 

}

Easy.java

Nothing important here, the place where I refer to awe():

if (s==max+1){System.out.println("AWESOME!"); MainActivity mA = new MainActivity(); mA.awe();}

Awesome.java

public class Awesome extends Activity {

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

I hope I now posted everything that is important

Answer 1

The problem probably is that MainActivity has not been fully initialized yet when you are calling the awe() method, and the internal Context of the Activity is null.