NullPointerException at PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences on startup

Question

So I'm remaking my application of A couple of months ago(getting the faults out, and making some things better) But now I came up on to A problem that I did'nt find and don't know what it is. If I"m running the application on my phone it give this error

01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.stevedc.thinklogic/com.stevedc.thinklogic.TowerHanoi}: java.lang.NullPointerException
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1891)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1992)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:127)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1158)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4441)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.preference.PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferencesName(PreferenceManager.java:371)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.preference.PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(PreferenceManager.java:366)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at com.stevedc.thinklogic.TowerHanoi.<init>(TowerHanoi.java:42)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at java.lang.Class.newInstanceImpl(Native Method)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:1319)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1023)
01-20 22:37:46.595: E/AndroidRuntime(7350):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1882)

can somebody point me in the direction where I need to see wich the fault is?

Answer 1

From the logcat it seems that the method you called is

 PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context); 

If the context here is null then there is a possibility of such exception. So try to pass a valid context as parameter. you can use the following method.

Context context = getApplicationContext();