Thread: ArrayIndexOutOfBounds in Android - help with debuuging

 
public class MainActivity extends ListActivity {
	private ArrayList<Friend> friendList;
	private EditText et;
	private int[] imageBlock;
	private String[] nameBlock;
	private String[] descBlock;
 
	int textlength=0;
	private Resources res;
	private ListView lv;
 
	public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
	{
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
		res = getResources();
		et 	= 	(EditText) findViewById(R.id.EditText01);
		lv	=	(ListView) findViewById(android.R.id.list);
 
		friendList = new ArrayList<Friend>();
 
		nameBlock = res.getStringArray(R.array.names);
		descBlock = res.getStringArray(R.array.descriptions);
		imageBlock = res.getIntArray(R.array.images);
 
		if(friendList == null) {
			Log.i("NullPointer", "Null Pointer in Friend List");
		}
 
		int size = nameBlock.length;
		for(int i = 0 ; i < size; i++) {
			friendList.add(new Friend(nameBlock[i], descBlock[i], imageBlock[i]));
		}
 
		setListAdapter(new bsAdapter(this));
 
 
 
		et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher()
		{
			public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) { }
			public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) { }
			public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count)
			{
				friendList.clear();
				textlength = et.getText().length();
 
				for (int i = 0; i < nameBlock.length; i++)
				{
					if (textlength <= nameBlock[i].length())
					{
						if(nameBlock[i].toLowerCase().contains(et.getText().toString().toLowerCase().trim())) {
							Log.i("NullPointer", "Null Pointer in Friend List");
							friendList.add(new Friend(nameBlock[i], descBlock[i], imageBlock[i]));
						}
                      }
				}
				AppendList(friendList);
				}
				});
 
	}
	public void AppendList(ArrayList<Friend> freind) {
		setListAdapter(new bsAdapter(this));
	}	
	public class bsAdapter extends BaseAdapter
    {
        Activity cntx;
        public bsAdapter(Activity context)
        {
            this.cntx=context;
 
        }
        public int getCount()
        {
            return friendList.size();
        }
        public Object getItem(int position)
        {
            return friendList.get(position);
        }
        public long getItemId(int position)
        {
            return friendList.size();
        }
 
        public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
        {
            View row=null;
 
            LayoutInflater inflater=cntx.getLayoutInflater();
            row=inflater.inflate(R.layout.search_list_item, null);
 
            TextView   tv	=	(TextView)	row.findViewById(R.id.title);
            ImageView im	=	(ImageView)	row.findViewById(R.id.imageview);
 
            tv.setText(friendList.get(position).getName());
            im.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(friendList.get(position).getImage()));       
        return row;
        }
    }
}

I keep getting an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds, but my lack of experience in LogCat kind of doesn't help... Could somebody just have a look at my code. And maybe assist me in someway? I'm building a FriendsList using a ListView and intergrating a search filter feature.
Thanks, Peter.

Originally Posted by aussiemcgr

Any idea where the exception is being thrown?

I cracked the problem. It was occurring at line 62:

 friendList.add(new Friend(nameBlock[i], descBlock[i], imageBlock[i]));

The reason: I have an xml. string-array that had 1 value. And I was looping 10 times. Causing an array index out of bounds because I set the String[] array to be of size 1.

--- Update ---

Originally Posted by Norm

Can you copy the contents of the Logcat that shows the error and paste it here? The stack trace in the logcat will point to where the error happened.

Hi Norm, hope your having a great day. I have fixed this error now. The problem was that I was trying to insert 10 values into an array ready to be pushed into an ArrayList. The problem was, that I had set the array to be of size 1. But pushing 10 elements into it caused the Exception.