Android: listview: custom items: nullpointerexception, findviewbyid returns null

Question

I have been googling and searching to resolve this error for some time and I can`t seem to find out why and how to solve it.

I`m using a customAdapter to fill in my

Answer 1

change the line

mHolder.textViewCenter = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview_list_item_central);

which is below * RETURNS NULL DURING DEBUGGING * by

mHolder.textViewCenter = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.textview_list_item_central);