Cordova 3, Unable to start activity

I am trying to start my Cordova 3 application, but it seems I am running into some problems.

Error log:

09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.fourgamers.reader/com.fourgamers.reader.FourGamers}: java.lang.NullPointerException
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2100)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2125)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:140)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1227)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4898)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1006)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:773)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at org.apache.cordova.CordovaActivity.init(CordovaActivity.java:374)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at org.apache.cordova.CordovaActivity.init(CordovaActivity.java:338)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at org.apache.cordova.CordovaActivity.loadUrl(CordovaActivity.java:451)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at com.fourgamers.reader.FourGamers.onCreate(FourGamers.java:31)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5206)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1083)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2064)
09-28 18:03:05.538: E/AndroidRuntime(25370):    ... 11 more

FourGamers.java

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package com.fourgamers.reader;

import android.os.Bundle;
import org.apache.cordova.*;

public class FourGamers extends DroidGap
{
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.setIntegerProperty("splashscreen", R.drawable.splash);
        super.loadUrl(Config.getStartUrl(), 10000);

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        // Set by <content src="index.html" /> in config.xml
        super.loadUrl(Config.getStartUrl());
        //super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html")

    }
}

AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<manifest android:hardwareAccelerated="true" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="0.0.1" android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" package="com.fourgamers.reader" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <supports-screens android:anyDensity="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:resizeable="true" android:smallScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="true" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <application android:debuggable="true" android:hardwareAccelerated="true" android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard|screenSize|locale" android:label="@string/app_name" android:name="FourGamers" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="10" android:targetSdkVersion="18" />
</manifest>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Jon Skeet
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Looking at the source code for CordobaActivity, I suspect the problem is that you're using loadUrl before you've called super.onCreate, which means various aspects of the activity aren't hooked up yet. I suggest you switch round the lines, to this:

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
super.setIntegerProperty("splashscreen", R.drawable.splash);
super.loadUrl(Config.getStartUrl(), 10000);

(It's not clear why you're calling super.loadUrl(Config.getStartUrl()) twice, by the way - once with a timeout and once without...)

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