Unable to get Listview to refresh from Database

Question

No matter what I seem to try and do regarding this listview and trying to get it to dynamically update whenever I hit a button it doesn\'t work and always throws a NPE.

Answer 1

    import android.app.ListActivity;
    import android.content.ContentValues;
    import android.content.Context;
    import android.database.Cursor;
    import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
    import android.os.Bundle;
    import android.view.View;
    import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
    import android.widget.Button;
    import android.widget.EditText;
    import android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter;
    import android.widget.Toast;

    public class pills extends ListActivity {

    public static final String C_MED_NAME = "med_name";
    public SimpleCursorAdapter ladapter;
    Context context;
    Cursor cur;

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.pills);
        context=this;
        try {

                DatabaseHelper DBHelper= new DatabaseHelper(this);
                SQLiteDatabase db = DBHelper.getReadableDatabase();


                cur = db.query("Medicines", null, null, null, null, null, null);
                startManagingCursor(cur);

                String [] columns = new String[] {C_MED_NAME};
                int [] to = new int[] {R.id.meditem};

                ladapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.meditem, cur, columns, to);

                this.setListAdapter(ladapter);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }



        Button saveMed = (Button) findViewById(R.id.pills_newmedsubmit);
        saveMed.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {



            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                final EditText newMed = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.pills_newmedtxtbox);

                if (newMed.getText().toString().equals("")) {

    //                    Context context = getApplicationContext();
                        CharSequence text = "Please type the name of a new prescription item.";
                        int duration = Toast.LENGTH_SHORT;

                        Toast toast= Toast.makeText(context, text, duration);
                        toast.show();
                }
                else
                {

                        String medName = newMed.getText().toString();

                        insertNewPrescriptionItem(medName);

                        EditText clearTextBox = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.pills_newmedtxtbox);
                        clearTextBox.setText("");

    //                  Context context = getApplicationContext();
                        CharSequence text = "Saved";
                        int duration = Toast.LENGTH_SHORT;

                        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, text, duration);
                        toast.show();


                }

            refresh();

            }


        });}

        private void insertNewPrescriptionItem (String medName){

            DatabaseHelper DbHelper = new DatabaseHelper(this);

            SQLiteDatabase db = DbHelper.getWritableDatabase();

            ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();

                cv.put(DatabaseHelper.C_MED_NAME, medName);

                db.insert(DatabaseHelper.TABLE_NAME, DatabaseHelper.C_MED_NAME, cv);
                db.close();
                }


    }
public void refresh(){
cur = db.query("Medicines", null, null, null, null, null, null);
ladapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

try this, i think your context is null thats why it is happening so