title: my android app crashes as soon as i want to make a new task
body: <p>hi guys im new to android and i want to make an app.something like a daily planner.
  the problem is this, my app opens up and i have the new task button, when i hit the button to add a new task the app crashes. i searched the forum for similar problems but couldn't  get help.</p>
  
  <p>here's my cat log file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>09-27 19:03:46.035: D/dalvikvm(19346): Late-enabling CheckJNI
  
  09-27 19:03:46.440: D/dalvikvm(19346): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 136K, 4% free 12874K/13319K, paused 31ms
  
  09-27 19:03:46.440: I/dalvikvm-heap(19346): Grow heap (frag case) to 13.127MB for 379472-byte allocation
  
  09-27 19:03:46.465: D/dalvikvm(19346): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 0K, 4% free 13245K/13703K, paused 20ms
  
  09-27 19:03:46.535: D/AbsListView(19346): Get MotionRecognitionManager
  
  09-27 19:03:49.510: D/CLIPBOARD(19346): Hide Clipboard dialog at Starting input: finished by someone else... !
  
  09-27 19:03:53.625: D/AndroidRuntime(19346): Shutting down VM
  
  09-27 19:03:53.625: W/dalvikvm(19346): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40c5d1f8)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.example.dailyplanner/com.example.dailyplanner.new_task}: java.lang.NullPointerException
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1894)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1995)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:128)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1161)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4514)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:993)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:760)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.app.Activity.findViewById(Activity.java:1851)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at com.example.dailyplanner.new_task.&lt;init&gt;(new_task.java:19)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at java.lang.Class.newInstanceImpl(Native Method)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:1319)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1027)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1885)
  
  09-27 19:03:53.635: E/AndroidRuntime(19346):    ... 11 more
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this is the android manifest:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;manifest package="com.example.dailyplanner"
  android:versionName="1.0" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:versionCode="1"&gt;
  
  &lt;uses-sdk
      android:minSdkVersion="9"
      android:targetSdkVersion="15" /&gt;
  
  &lt;application
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Light.NoTitleBar" &gt;
      &lt;activity
          android:name=".MainActivity"
          android:label="@string/title_activity_main"
          android:screenOrientation="portrait" 
          android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"&gt;
          &lt;intent-filter&gt;
              &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
              &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
          &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
      &lt;/activity&gt;
      &lt;activity android:name=".new_task"/&gt;
  &lt;/application&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>here is my main.java file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.example.dailyplanner;
  
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.app.ListActivity;
  import android.content.Intent;
  import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
  import android.view.Menu;
  import android.view.View;
  import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
  import android.widget.Button;
  
  public class MainActivity extends ListActivity {
  
  
  
  
  
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
      //SQLiteDatabase db = openOrCreateDatabase("MyDB", MODE_PRIVATE, null   );
      //db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Data1 (Id INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, text VARCHAR, time TIME, date DATE)");
  
  
  
      Button nTaskBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.nTask);
      nTaskBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
  
          public void onClick(View v) {
  
              Intent nTaskScreen = new Intent(getApplicationContext() , new_task.class);
  
  
  
              startActivity(nTaskScreen);
  
  
  
          }
      });
  
  }
  
  @Override
  public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
      return true;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and this is the new_task.java file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.example.dailyplanner;
  
  import android.R.string;
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.app.Dialog;
  import android.app.TimePickerDialog;
  import android.net.UrlQuerySanitizer.ValueSanitizer;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.renderscript.Sampler.Value;
  import android.view.View;
  import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
  import android.widget.Button;
  import android.widget.TextView;
  import android.widget.TimePicker;
  
  public class new_task extends Activity {
  
  static final int TIME_DIALOG_ID=0;
  final TextView timeText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.timeTxt);
  TextView dateText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.dateTxt);
  
  
  
  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.new_task);
  
      Button btnSave = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnSave);
      btnSave.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
  
          public void onClick(View v) {
  
  
  
  
          }
      });
  
  
  
      Button btnSetTime = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnSetTime);
      btnSetTime.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
  
          public void onClick(View v) {
  
              showDialog(TIME_DIALOG_ID);
  
          }
          });
  }
  private TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener mTimeSetListener = new TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener() {
  
              public void onTimeSet(TimePicker view, int hourOfDay, int minute) {
                  timeText.setText(hourOfDay+":"+minute);
                  };
  
  };
  protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id){
      switch(id){
  
      case TIME_DIALOG_ID:
      return new TimePickerDialog(this, mTimeSetListener, 0, 0, true);
  
      }
      return null;
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help?</p>