[Android] Catch null pointer exception
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
jb at videolan.org
Fri May 17 01:29:07 CEST 2013
On 16 May, XilasZ wrote :
> please don't do that, send alex's patches on the ML before commit/push, we
> don't fix a simple NullPointerException with a try/catch.
This is my fault, because I couldn't figure out exactly the issue.
> a little quick digging reveals that getFilesDir() is faulty here.
> getFilesDir() try to create folders in the internal memory (such as
> /data/data/<pkg>/files), and return null if it can't (docs are wrong, see
> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8886).
Ah, I missed that.
With all my excuses.
Best regards,
PS: you should have forced push, IMVHO
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