Android GoogleMap or SupportMapFragment - null pointer exception

Question

In my app i showing google map version2 in a fragment. but i get Null pointer exception at

mMap = ((SupportMapFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id

Answer 1

May be above answers work but what work for me is this.

 {
    SupportPlaceAutocompleteFragment supportPlaceAutocompleteFragmentSearch;
    FragmentManager fragmentManagerSearch = getChildFragmentManager();
    supportPlaceAutocompleteFragmentSearch = 
                                            (SupportPlaceAutocompleteFragment)
                                            fragmentManagerSearch.findFragmentById(R.id.place_autocomplete_fragment_search);
    }

Answer 2

Try changing to

mMap = ((SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map)).getMap();

You're using getFragmentManager(), but casting it to SupportMapFragment

You also need to extend FragmentActivity: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/FragmentActivity.html

Answer 3

if you developed your code with Kotlin, and want to add MapFragment to another Fragment you need to use SupportMapFragment but if you do it, you will get null exception so you should use childFragmentManager rather than supportFragmentManager and the code should be in onCreateView not in onCreate just add below code:

private lateinit var mapFragment : SupportMapFragment

 mapFragment = childFragmentManager.findFragmentById(R.id.mapview) as SupportMapFragment
    mapFragment.getMapAsync { googleMap ->
        this.googleMap = googleMap
        setGoogleMapSettings()
    }

Answer 4

Try to add tools:context=".YourActivity" to the fragment xml:

<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/map"
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".YourActivity" />

Answer 5

None of these solutions fixed it for me -- but this answer from Mark Murphy (https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=77714) did:

Use getChildFragmentManager() to access a nested fragment, not getFragmentManager(). http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/Fragment.html#getChildFragmentManager%28%29

i.e.:

public class MapFragment extends Fragment {
    private GoogleMap map;
    private SupportMapFragment mapFragment;
    ...

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup vg, Bundle data) {
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.map_view, vg, false);
        FragmentManager fm = getChildFragmentManager();
        mapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) fm.findFragmentById(R.id.map);
        mapFragment.getMapAsync(new OnMapReadyCallback() {
            public void onMapReady(GoogleMap googleMap) {
                map = googleMap;
                initMap();
            }
        });
    }
}

Answer 6

After hours of search, I did in this way:

 public class MapFragment extends Fragment {
    private GoogleMap map;
    SupportMapFragment mapFrag;

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        setHasOptionsMenu(true);
        View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_map, container,
                false);

        fm = getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager();
        map = ((SupportMapFragment) fm.findFragmentById(R.id.map)).getMap();

        return rootView;

    }
}