MainActivity can't find ListView with id of android.R.id.list, but it's there
<p>I was following <a href="http://www.androidhive.info/2012/05/how-to-connect-android-with-php-mysql/" rel="nofollow"><strong>this tutorial</strong></a>. </p>

<p>I've modified it to my app's needs, such as no <strong>CRUD</strong> functionality and no main menu - I just want to list all the items during the main activity that gets executed when the app is launched.</p>

<p>Code seems to have no errors, but running it gives me: <code>Unfortunately, MyFirstApp has stopped</code> in the VM.</p>

<p><strong>LogCat</strong> gives me this:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>E/AndroidRuntime(910): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start
  activity
  ComponentInfo{com.example.myfirstproject/com.example.myfirstproject.MainActivity}:
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Your content must have a ListView whose id
  attribute is 'android.R.id.list'</p>
</blockquote>

<p>What do? I've checked my .xml layouts and made the changes, but the app still crashes.</p>

<p><strong>MainActivity.java</strong></p>

<pre><code>package com.example.myfirstproject;

//imports

public class MainActivity extends ListActivity implements OnItemClickListener {

    // Progress Dialog
    private ProgressDialog pDialog;

    // Creating JSON Parser object
    JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();

    ArrayList&lt;HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;&gt; carsList;

    // url to get all products list
    private static String url_all_cars = "http://localhost/webservice/get_all_cars.php";

    // JSON Node names
    private static final String TAG_SUCCESS = "success";
    private static final String TAG_CARS = "cars";
    private static final String TAG_NAME = "name";

    // products JSONArray
    JSONArray cars = null;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // Hashmap for ListView
        carsList = new ArrayList&lt;HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;&gt;();

        // Loading products in Background Thread
        new LoadAllcars().execute();

        // Get listview
        ListView lv = getListView();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Background Async Task to Load all product by making HTTP Request
     * */
    class LoadAllcars extends AsyncTask&lt;String, String, String&gt; {

        /**
         * Before starting background thread Show Progress Dialog
         * */
        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
            pDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
            pDialog.setMessage("Loading cars. Please wait...");
            pDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
            pDialog.setCancelable(false);
            pDialog.show();
        }

        /**
         * getting All products from url
         * */
        protected String doInBackground(String... args) {
            // Building Parameters
            List&lt;NameValuePair&gt; params = new ArrayList&lt;NameValuePair&gt;();
            // getting JSON string from URL
            JSONObject json = jParser.makeHttpRequest(url_all_cars, "GET", params);

            // Check your log cat for JSON reponse
            Log.d("All cars: ", json.toString());

            try {
                // Checking for SUCCESS TAG
                int success = json.getInt(TAG_SUCCESS);

                if (success == 1) {
                    // products found
                    // Getting Array of Products
                    cars = json.getJSONArray(TAG_CARS);

                    // looping through All Products
                    for (int i = 0; i &lt; cars.length(); i++) {
                        JSONObject c = cars.getJSONObject(i);

                        // Storing each json item in variable
                        String title = c.getString(TAG_NAME);

                        // creating new HashMap
                        HashMap&lt;String, String&gt; map = new HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;();

                        // adding each child node to HashMap key =&gt; value
                        map.put(TAG_NAME, name);

                        // adding HashList to ArrayList
                        carsList.add(map);
                    }
                } else {
                    // no products found
                    pDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
                    pDialog.setMessage("No cars found");
                    pDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
                    pDialog.setCancelable(false);
                    pDialog.show();
                }
            } catch (JSONException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            return null;
        }

        /**
         * After completing background task Dismiss the progress dialog
         * **/
        protected void onPostExecute(String file_url) {
            // dismiss the dialog after getting all products
            pDialog.dismiss();
            // updating UI from Background Thread
            runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                public void run() {
                    /**
                     * Updating parsed JSON data into ListView
                     * */
                    ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(
                            MainActivity.this, carsList,
                            android.R.id.list, new String[] {TAG_NAME},
                            new int[] { R.id.title });
                    // updating listview
                    setListAdapter(adapter);
                }
            });

        }
    }
}
</code></pre>

<p><strong>activity_main.xml</strong> (layout for the mainactivity with listview):</p>

<pre><code>&lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/main_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" &gt;
    &lt;ListView
        android:id="@+id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1" &gt;
    &lt;/ListView&gt;   
&lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
</code></pre>

<p><strong>list_item.xml</strong> (layout for individual list items):</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical" &gt;

    &lt;!-- Name Label --&gt;
    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/name"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingTop="6dip"
        android:paddingLeft="6dip"
        android:textSize="17dip"
        android:textStyle="bold" /&gt;

&lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
</code></pre>
