Using CardView and RecyclerView in my layout files throws an exception

Question

So I\'ve been taking a shot at the Material Design of Android Preview L. I imported both the CardView and the RecyclerView libraries.

I use the

Answer 1

I am using Eclipse and faced the same issue. As suggested by user7610, you need to call recyclerView.setLayoutManager() to get over this.

Here is how i solved it..

Create a member variable..

RecyclerView.LayoutManager mLayoutManager;

In onCreate() or onCreateView()

recyclerView = (RecyclerView) view
                .findViewById(R.id.business_recycler_view);
recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);

mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity());
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);

This solved my NullPointerException.