NullPointerException in Android RSS app?

It appears that date in RssItem in null, when you pass it to your SimpleDateFormat the exception is thrown.

It looks like you're never initializing your date attribute in RssItem. You may want to add a check in your getDate() to initialize the date attribute if it hasn't been done already. Or better yet, do it in your constructor.

I'm not very familiar with working with RSS feeds though.

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