Referencing Options Menu Item As View Throws Nullpointerexception

I'm building user guide with MaterialShowcaseView library. I plan to guide user through all toolbar options menu items in fragment (Theme.AppCompat with no action bar is used). Thu

Solution 1:

Since the fragment equivalent is already giving you a MenuInflater, probably try doing this..

@OverridepublicvoidonCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_sample, menu);
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu,inflater);
}

May be in your case, getActivity() may be throwing a null pointer because the onCreate method of Activity is called first, and before it finishes onCreateOptionsMenu is called.