I'm working on a project where I need to put a few activities under a Tab in Tabhost. I'm using custom `tabgroupactivity` example which i find somewhere over the internet, but now I have a little issue with finishing my activities. First here is the custom class code :

```
import java.util.ArrayList;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ActivityGroup;
import android.app.LocalActivityManager;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.view.Window;

/*
 * The purpose of this Activity is to manage the activities in a tab.
 * Note: Child Activities can handle Key Presses before they are seen here.
 * @author Eric Harlow
 */
public class TabGroupActivity extends ActivityGroup {

    private ArrayList<String> mIdList;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);       
        if (mIdList == null) mIdList = new ArrayList<String>();
    }

    /*
     * This is called when a child activity of this one calls its finish method. 
     * This implementation calls {@link LocalActivityManager#destroyActivity} on the child activity
     * and starts the previous activity.
     * If the last child activity just called finish(),this activity (the parent),
     * calls finish to finish the entire group.
     */
  @Override
  public void finishFromChild(Activity child) {
      LocalActivityManager manager = getLocalActivityManager();
      int index = mIdList.size()-1;

      if(index < 1) {
              finish();
              return;
      } 
        manager.destroyActivity(mIdList.get(index), true);
        mIdList.remove(index);
        index--;
        String lastId = mIdList.get(index);
        Intent lastIntent = manager.getActivity(lastId).getIntent();
        Window newWindow = manager.startActivity(lastId, lastIntent);
        setContentView(newWindow.getDecorView());

  }

  /*
   * Starts an Activity as a child Activity to this.
   * @param Id Unique identifier of the activity to be started.
   * @param intent The Intent describing the activity to be started.
   * @throws android.content.ActivityNotFoundException.
   */
  public void startChildActivity(String Id, Intent intent) {     
      Window window = getLocalActivityManager().startActivity(Id,intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP));
      if (window != null) {
          mIdList.add(Id);
          setContentView(window.getDecorView()); 
      }    
  }

  /*
   * The primary purpose is to prevent systems before android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.ECLAIR
   * from calling their default KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK during onKeyDown.
   */
  @Override
  public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
      if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
          //preventing default implementation previous to android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.ECLAIR
          return true;
      }
      return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
  }

  /*
   * Overrides the default implementation for KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK 
   * so that all systems call onBackPressed().
   */
  @Override
  public boolean onKeyUp(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
      if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
          onBackPressed();
          return true;
      }
      return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event);
  }

  /*
   * If a Child Activity handles KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK.
   * Simply override and add this method.
   */
  @Override
  public void  onBackPressed () {
      int length = mIdList.size();
      if ( length >=1) {
          Activity current = getLocalActivityManager().getActivity(mIdList.get(length-1));
          current.finish();
      }
  }
}

```

So basically my problem is when I have 5 tabs in a `tabhost`. In first tab I have 3 child activities, let's call them `Activity` `A`, `B` and `C`. Here is a little information about connection between activities :

```
A --- can start -->B and C
B --- can start -->A and C
C --- can start -->A and B

```

and I'm starting them like this :

```
Intent previewMessage = new Intent(A.this, C.class);
previewMessage.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY);
TabGroupActivity parentActivity = (TabGroupActivity)getParent();
parentActivity.startChildActivity("ExpectSoon", previewMessage);

```

and here is the **problem** : When I start a few times `A,B,C` like `A-->B-->C-->B-->C-->A-->C` and etc. there is no problem...but when I press the back button I'm getting a NullPointerException on this line from my TagGroupActivity :

```
Intent lastIntent = manager.getActivity(lastId).getIntent();

```

and here is the LogCat output :

```
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377): java.lang.NullPointerException
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at com.stampii.stampii.TabGroupActivity.finishFromChild(TabGroupActivity.java:49)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.app.Activity.finish(Activity.java:3420)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at com.stampii.stampii.TabGroupActivity.onBackPressed(TabGroupActivity.java:104)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at com.stampii.stampii.TabGroupActivity.onKeyUp(TabGroupActivity.java:89)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.view.KeyEvent.dispatch(KeyEvent.java:1527)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.app.Activity.dispatchKeyEvent(Activity.java:2210)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.dispatchKeyEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1779)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:811)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:811)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:811)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.widget.TabHost.dispatchKeyEvent(TabHost.java:278)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:811)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:811)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.superDispatchKeyEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1812)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.superDispatchKeyEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1160)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.app.Activity.dispatchKeyEvent(Activity.java:2205)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.dispatchKeyEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1779)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.view.ViewRoot.deliverKeyEventToViewHierarchy(ViewRoot.java:2758)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.view.ViewRoot.handleFinishedEvent(ViewRoot.java:2730)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1999)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4293)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:849)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:607)
10-05 10:51:30.995: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(20377):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

```

Any ideas how to solve that problem?