title: Android Unable to start activity
body: <p>Here is my LogCat log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>07-17 14:05:10.226: INFO/ActivityManager(71): Starting activity: Intent { cmp=com.mohit.gtd/.TaskEdit }  
  07-17 14:05:10.316: VERBOSE/GTDActivity(579): Starting TaskEdit activity  
  07-17 14:05:10.576: DEBUG/PhoneWindow(579): couldn't save which view has focus because the focused view com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@43e477b0 has no id.  
  07-17 14:05:10.775: DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(579): Shutting down VM  
  07-17 14:05:10.785: WARN/dalvikvm(579): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d800)  
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579): FATAL EXCEPTION: main  
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.mohit.gtd/com.mohit.gtd.TaskEdit}: java.lang.NullPointerException
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at com.mohit.gtd.TaskEdit.onCreate(TaskEdit.java:18)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
  07-17 14:05:10.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(579):     ... 11 more
  07-17 14:05:10.875: WARN/ActivityManager(71):   Force finishing activity com.mohit.gtd/.TaskEdit
  07-17 14:05:10.916: WARN/ActivityManager(71):   Force finishing activity com.mohit.gtd/.GtdActivity
  07-17 14:05:11.426: WARN/ActivityManager(71): Activity pause timeout for HistoryRecord{43fb2be0 com.mohit.gtd/.TaskEdit}
  07-17 14:05:13.625: INFO/Process(579): Sending signal. PID: 579 SIG: 9
  07-17 14:05:13.775: INFO/ActivityManager(71): Process com.mohit.gtd (pid 579) has died.
  07-17 14:05:13.835: INFO/WindowManager(71): WIN DEATH: Window{43fd4e70 com.mohit.gtd/com.mohit.gtd.GtdActivity paused=true}
  07-17 14:05:13.976: WARN/InputManagerService(71): Got RemoteException sending setActive(false) notification to pid 579 uid 10032
  07-17 14:05:22.884: WARN/ActivityManager(71): Activity destroy timeout for HistoryRecord{43e46998 com.mohit.gtd/.GtdActivity}
  07-17 14:05:23.069: WARN/ActivityManager(71): Activity destroy timeout for HistoryRecord{43fb2be0 com.mohit.gtd/.TaskEdit}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What could be causing an error? <code>TaskEdit</code> is a subclass of <code>Activity</code> and it is listed as an activity in the <code>AndroidManifest</code> file.</p>