I am using VS2015 with Xamarin to create a multi-platform project that can show a splashscreen and then load a webpage in a webview. Here is my project structure. I am using a PCL project type as below:
TheApp (Portable)
-WebPageHoster.Xaml //Contains a WebView control
-WebPageHoster.Xaml.cs //sets the WebView controls source property to load a webpage
-App.Xaml
-App.Xaml.cs
TheApp.Droid
/Resources/drawable/splashlogo.png
/Resources/drawable/icon3.png
/Resources/values/Styles.xml
-MainActivity.cs
-SplashActivity.cs
TheApp.iOS
TheApp.WindowsPhone(Windows Phone 8.1)
This is the code in the Styles.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<resources>
<style name="Theme.Splash" parent="android:Theme">
<item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/splashlogo</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
</resources>
SplashActivity.cs
[Activity(MainLauncher = true, NoHistory = true, Theme = "@style/Theme.Splash", Icon = "@drawable/icon3")]
public class SplashActivity : AppCompatActivity
{
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);
var intent = new Intent(this, typeof(MainActivity));
StartActivity(intent);
Finish();
}
}
MainActivity.cs
[Activity(Label = "Splash App", ConfigurationChanges = ConfigChanges.ScreenSize | ConfigChanges.Orientation)]
public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsApplicationActivity
{
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
{
base.OnCreate(bundle);
global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(this, bundle);
LoadApplication(new App()); // << Problem here
}
The LoadApplication
method call in the OnCreate
method above loads the app constructor of the App.Xaml.cs class which runs the following code
public App() { InitializeComponent(); MainPage = new NavigationPage(new WebPageHoster() { Title = "Load Web-Page" }); }
This shows the splash screen and after setting the WebView's url reaches back to the OnCreate method and gives this error
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I am unable to find what is causing this error. Here is the Android Manifest file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="TheApp.TheApp" android:installLocation="auto" android:versionCode="1">
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="15" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE" />
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon3" android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat" android:label="Splash Web Host"></application>
</manifest>
I tested your source code and your MainActivity
derives from FormsAppCompatActivity
.
In that case you must provide a theme that uses AppCompat
.
To solve that, I added an AppCompat
Theme to your styles:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
</style>
And then used it on your MainActivity
:
[Activity(Label = "Southern Travel", Theme = "@style/AppTheme", ConfigurationChanges = ConfigChanges.ScreenSize | ConfigChanges.Orientation)]
public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsAppCompatActivity
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