ListView yielding nullpointerexception on setOnItemClickListener

Question

I\'m attempting to work with through some tutorial code and add in an OnItemClick Listener, but keep throwing an exception when it hits the listener and crashing my app. This is

Answer 1

ListActivity doesn't require you to assign a layout via setContentView() that is if you want to show only a list but if you add a another view, your ListView should contain the android:id attribute set to @android:id/list like this xml below

try changing your code

ListView lv = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.list);

to this

ListView lv = getListView();
lv.setOnItemClickListener(newsSelectListener);