diff --git a/src/com/xtremelabs/droidsugar/fakes/FakeTextView.java b/src/com/xtremelabs/droidsugar/fakes/FakeTextView.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/src/com/xtremelabs/droidsugar/fakes/FakeTextView.java
+++ b/src/com/xtremelabs/droidsugar/fakes/FakeTextView.java
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ public class FakeTextView extends FakeView {
 
     public void setText(CharSequence text) {
         this.textResourceId = UNINITIALIZED_ATTRIBUTE;
+        if (text == null) {
+            text = "";
+        }
         this.text = text;
     }
calling setText(null) on a TextView should actually set the text to be empty string (this is what the real android library call does)