Rendering Problems: java.lang.NullPointerException at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView in Android Studio 1.1.0

Question

I have recently updated android sdk to api 22 and android studio 1.1.0. After that I am getting rendering issues on RecyclerView. Here is what I am getting

  java.lang.NullPointerException
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.computeVerticalScrollRange(RecyclerView.java:1216)
at android.view.View.onDrawScrollBars(View.java:12943)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15237)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.draw(RecyclerView.java:2440)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15140)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild_Original(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup_Delegate.drawChild(ViewGroup_Delegate.java:53)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3198)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15138)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild_Original(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup_Delegate.drawChild(ViewGroup_Delegate.java:53)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3198)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15234)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15140)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild_Original(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup_Delegate.drawChild(ViewGroup_Delegate.java:53)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout.drawChild(DrawerLayout.java:1086)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3198)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15138)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild_Original(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup_Delegate.drawChild(ViewGroup_Delegate.java:53)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3198)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15138)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild_Original(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup_Delegate.drawChild(ViewGroup_Delegate.java:53)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3198)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15234)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15140)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild_Original(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup_Delegate.drawChild(ViewGroup_Delegate.java:53)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:3405)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:3198)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:15234)

I am getting this exception on xml preview/design, so I am not able to view the xml design.

The project is working fine without any exception. Here is my widget

 <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
            android:id="@+id/my_recycler_view"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="8"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:scrollbars="vertical"
            android:fadeScrollbars="false"
            />

This is my code

    recyclerView= (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);
    layoutManager=new GridLayoutManager(this,2);
    recyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);
    recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
    recyclerView.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator());

How to solve this issue?

Answer 1

My problem was solved when I took out this line from the xml file for the RecyclerView:

android:scrollbars="vertical"

I am using the following dependencies:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.0.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:22.0.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:22.0.0'
}

EDIT: The root of this issue was pointed out by commentators on this solution - to solve the problem, you can just ensure that the LayoutManager for the RecyclerView is set before you display the RecyclerView with the scrollbars property set.

Answer 2

You just forgot to set a LayoutManager: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/RecyclerView.html#setLayoutManager(android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.LayoutManager)