Passing Extras From Activity To Intent Throws Nullpointerexception

This is a problem that forked off a different issue. I'm passing two strings from my main activity to a child service, which is fine, but when the main activity dies, the service t

Solution 1:

As per the documentation:

intent - ... This may be null if the service is being restarted

Therefore check for null intent:

publicintonStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
    intcmd=super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);

    if (intent == null) return cmd;

    finalStringauthor= intent.getStringExtra("author");
    finalStringquote= intent.getStringExtra("quote");

    ...
}