title: Android wont do my else statement
body: <p>Can someone tell me why this simple code wont work? In the first activity I have the user choose an option which sends an arraylist to the next activity. 
  It will not do the else statement and force closes. Thanks guys!</p>
  
  <pre><code>String[] quotes;
  
  ArrayList&lt;String&gt; Dark = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;();
  ArrayList&lt;String&gt; Light = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Heres the code</p>
  
  <pre><code>if (Dark.isEmpty()){
  
      Light = i.getStringArrayListExtra("light");
      quotes = Light.toArray(new String[Light.size()]);
  } else {
  
      Dark = i.getStringArrayListExtra("dark");
      quotes = Dark.toArray(new String[Dark.size()]); 
  };
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>here is how i send it</p>
  
  <pre><code> public void dark (View d){
      dark.add("Even 0 is a number, just leave him alone!");
      dark.add("Love is noting but a bad spell, cast onto your soul, never to be released into the wild...");
      dark.add("The end is near please do not make the same mistakes.");
      dark.add( "Jenna i love you, youre my little beandip, dive you!");
      dark.add( "cute hate but dont rate im no skate");
      dark.add("You will never live if you live a lie");
      Intent intent = new Intent(choose.this,Startme.class);
      intent.putStringArrayListExtra("dark",dark);
      startActivity(intent);
   }
  
  public void light (View l) {
      light.add("Good ideas will come if you share your love");
      light.add("enter a world with no doubt, join god");
      light.add("come on, can you live a life");
      light.add( "where love is so is hate lol not");
      light.add( "watch me now!! go with me and join the lord");
      light.add("never be afrade of the darkness");
  
      Intent intent = new Intent(choose.this,Startme.class);
      intent.putStringArrayListExtra("light",light);
      startActivity(intent);
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Log</p>
  
  <pre><code>07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{me.me.quote/me.me.quote.Startme}: java.lang.NullPointerException
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1696)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1716)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:124)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:968)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3806)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at me.me.quote.Startme.onCreate(Startme.java:164)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1660)
  07-30 17:41:33.457: E/AndroidRuntime(15638):    ... 11 more
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the full code:</p>
  
  <pre><code> public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      this.setContentView(R.layout.startquotes);
  
      Intent i = getIntent(); 
  
      if (Dark.isEmpty()){
  
          Light = i.getStringArrayListExtra("light");
          quotes = Light.toArray(new String[Light.size()]);
      } else {
  
          Dark = i.getStringArrayListExtra("dark");
          quotes = Dark.toArray(new String[Dark.size()]); 
      }
  
      Button clouds = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Change);
      TranslateAnimation cloud2 = new TranslateAnimation(0, 0, +200, 0);
      clouds.startAnimation(cloud2);
      cloud2.setDuration(1000);
  
      Button clouds3 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.nxt);
      TranslateAnimation cloud3 = new TranslateAnimation(+200, 0, 0, 0);
      clouds3.startAnimation(cloud3);
      cloud3.setDuration(1000);
  
      Button clouds4 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.back);
      TranslateAnimation cloud4 = new TranslateAnimation(-200, 0, 0, 0);
      clouds4.startAnimation(cloud4);
      cloud4.setDuration(1000);
  
      AdView adview = (AdView)findViewById(R.id.adView);
      AdRequest re = new AdRequest();
      re.setTesting(true);
      adview.loadAd(re);
  
      String ser = SerializeObject.ReadSettings(Startme.this, "myobject.dat");
      if (ser != null &amp;&amp; !ser.equalsIgnoreCase("")) {
          Object obj = SerializeObject.stringToObject(ser);
          // Then cast it to your object and 
          if (obj instanceof ArrayList) {
              // Do something
              give = (ArrayList&lt;String&gt;)obj;
          }
      }
  
      TextView Dark=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.Quote); 
  
      Typeface face=Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/font1.ttf"); 
      Dark.setTypeface(face); 
  
      num = gen.nextInt(5);
      TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.Quote);
      text.setText( quotes[num]);
  
      TextView number = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.Qn);
      number.setText("#"+num);
  
      TextView Q=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.Qn); 
      Typeface tf=Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/titlefont.ttf"); 
      Q.setTypeface(tf); 
  
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>line 164</p>
  
  <pre><code>    if (Dark.isEmpty()){
  
          Light = i.getStringArrayListExtra("light");
  ----------&gt; quotes = Light.toArray(new String[Light.size()]);
      } else {
  </code></pre>