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You are creating local variables of button1<\/code>, button2<\/code> etc inside the onCreate<\/code> method. This way, the generateQuestion<\/code> method is unaware of these variables and uses the class variables with the same name (not included in your code, but I imagine you have somewhere declared them probably on top of your activity class) which are not initialized hence you get the NullPointerException<\/code>. <\/p>\n

Try changing your generateQuestion<\/code> to: <\/p>\n

public void generateQuestion(Button button1, Button button2, Button button3, Button button4) {\n\n   Random rand = new Random();\n   int a = rand.nextInt(21);\n   int b = rand.nextInt(21);\n\n   question.setText(Integer.toString(a) + \"+\" + Integer.toString(b));\n   int locationOfCorrectAnswer = rand.nextInt(4);\n\n   int incorrectAnswer;\n\n   for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {\n\n       if (i == locationOfCorrectAnswer) {\n           answers.add(a + b);\n       } else {\n           incorrectAnswer = rand.nextInt(41);\n           while (incorrectAnswer == a + b) {\n\n               incorrectAnswer = rand.nextInt(41);\n\n           }\n           answers.add(incorrectAnswer);\n       }\n   }\n   button1.setText(Integer.toString(answers.get(0)));\n   button2.setText(Integer.toString(answers.get(1)));\n   button3.setText(Integer.toString(answers.get(2)));\n   button4.setText(Integer.toString(answers.get(3)));\n\n\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
and call it from onCreate<\/code> like this:<\/p>\n
@Override\nprotected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {\n\n    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);\n    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);\n    goButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.goButton);\n    question = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.question);\n    pagetimer = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.pagetimer);\n    noIndiacator = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.noIndiacator);\n    resulttext = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.noIndiacator);\n    Button button1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);\n    Button button2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);\n    Button button3 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button3);\n    Button button4 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button4);\n\n    generateQuestion(button1, button2, button3, button4);\n\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This way you will pass the local variables inside the generateQuestion<\/code> method.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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