Java – android.app.SuperNotCalledException : Activity did not call through to super. onCreate()

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android.app.SuperNotCalledException : Activity did not call through to super. onCreate()

Here is my Android media player code. When I run in debug mode with the MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer() line breakpoint, I don’t know what’s missing from this code. All files in the zip folder are played. But when I run the application in normal mode, the first file is played, and then I get this error :

android.app.SuperNotCalledException: Activity {com.example.mediaplayer/com.example.mediaplayer.MainActivity} did not call through to super.onCreate()

Code:

package com.example.mediaplayer;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Button;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {     
    private MediaPlayer mp;    
    private static final String MAIN_TAG ="ERROR";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
     try {
    final String file_loc= Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString();
    Log.i("location",file_loc);
         ZipFile zip = new ZipFile("/storage/emulated/0/AjeshDocument/sample.zip");

for(int i=1; i<7; i++){

ZipEntry entry = zip.getEntry("sample/rihanna_"+i+".mp3");                        
         if (entry != null) {
             InputStream in = zip.getInputStream(entry);
              see Note #3.
             File tempFile = File.createTempFile("_AUDIO_", ".wav");
             FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(tempFile);
             IOUtils.copy(in, out);

 do something with tempFile (like play it)
             File f = tempFile;   
             try {
                 if (f.exists())
                 {
                     Log.i(MAIN_TAG,"Audio file found!");
                     MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
                     FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);
                     mp.setDataSource(fis.getFD());
                     mp.prepare();
                     mp.setLooping(false);
                     mp.start();                         
                     mp.stop();
                     mp.release();
                     Log.i(MAIN_TAG,"Pronounciation finished!");
                 }  

else
                 {
                     Log.i(MAIN_TAG,"File doesn't exist!!");
                 }

}
             catch (IOException e)
             {
                 Log.i(MAIN_TAG,e.toString());
             }
         }
         else {
              no such entry in the zip
         }
        } //for end
         mp.release();

}  
         catch (Exception e) {
          handle your exception cases...

Log.i(MAIN_TAG,e.toString());

}       

}

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    Log.w("Info", "App Resume");

super.onResume();
}

@Override
protected void onStop() {
    Log.w("Info", "App stopped");

super.onStop();
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
     Log.w("Info", "App destoryed");

super.onDestroy();
}

}

Solution

You did not call the onCreate() method of the activity, which is the method of the parent class (super class). Add a call to the onCreate() method of MainActivity:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private MediaPlayer mp;    
    private static final String MAIN_TAG ="ERROR";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);  this line is missing

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