NullPointerException with android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar

Question

I am currently trying to implement a navigation drawer in my app. I am having an issue with the Toolbar being null. I have done many searches online and tried many different

Answer 1

In my own case, i had used

@Bind(R.id.toolbar)
protected Toolbar toolbar;

at the top of my code but forgot to do

ButterKnife.bind(this);

inside onCreate() method

I hope that helps someone

Remember to add

 compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:7.0.1'

to your build.gradle dependencies and import

import butterknife.Bind;
import butterknife.ButterKnife;

in your java code and rebuild your app.