Attempt to read from field 'int android.view.View.mViewFlags' on a null object reference

前几天写动画时遇到这个奇怪问题，百度了一圈大概知道了是因为在动画时执行了removeView导致的。但是都没有更具体的解答，无奈之下翻看了一下原码终于找到了本质的问题。

@Override
    protected void dispatchDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        boolean usingRenderNodeProperties = canvas.isRecordingFor(mRenderNode);
        final int childrenCount = mChildrenCount;
        final View[] children = mChildren;
        int flags = mGroupFlags;

        if ((flags & FLAG_RUN_ANIMATION) != 0 && canAnimate()) {
            final boolean buildCache = !isHardwareAccelerated();
            for (int i = 0; i < childrenCount; i++) {
                final View child = children[i];
                if ((child.mViewFlags & VISIBILITY_MASK) == VISIBLE) {
                    final LayoutParams params = child.getLayoutParams();
                    attachLayoutAnimationParameters(child, params, i, childrenCount);
                    bindLayoutAnimation(child);
                }
            }

            final LayoutAnimationController controller = mLayoutAnimationController;
            if (controller.willOverlap()) {
                mGroupFlags |= FLAG_OPTIMIZE_INVALIDATE;
            }

            controller.start();

            mGroupFlags &= ~FLAG_RUN_ANIMATION;
            mGroupFlags &= ~FLAG_ANIMATION_DONE;

            if (mAnimationListener != null) {
                mAnimationListener.onAnimationStart(controller.getAnimation());
            }
        }

        int clipSaveCount = 0;
        final boolean clipToPadding = (flags & CLIP_TO_PADDING_MASK) == CLIP_TO_PADDING_MASK;
        if (clipToPadding) {
            clipSaveCount = canvas.save(Canvas.CLIP_SAVE_FLAG);
            canvas.clipRect(mScrollX + mPaddingLeft, mScrollY + mPaddingTop,
                    mScrollX + mRight - mLeft - mPaddingRight,
                    mScrollY + mBottom - mTop - mPaddingBottom);
        }

        // We will draw our child's animation, let's reset the flag
        mPrivateFlags &= ~PFLAG_DRAW_ANIMATION;
        mGroupFlags &= ~FLAG_INVALIDATE_REQUIRED;

        boolean more = false;
        final long drawingTime = getDrawingTime();

        if (usingRenderNodeProperties) canvas.insertReorderBarrier();
        final int transientCount = mTransientIndices == null ? 0 : mTransientIndices.size();
        int transientIndex = transientCount != 0 ? 0 : -1;
        // Only use the preordered list if not HW accelerated, since the HW pipeline will do the
        // draw reordering internally
        final ArrayList<View> preorderedList = usingRenderNodeProperties
                ? null : buildOrderedChildList();
        final boolean customOrder = preorderedList == null
                && isChildrenDrawingOrderEnabled();
        for (int i = 0; i < childrenCount; i++) {
            while (transientIndex >= 0 && mTransientIndices.get(transientIndex) == i) {
                final View transientChild = mTransientViews.get(transientIndex);
                if ((transientChild.mViewFlags & VISIBILITY_MASK) == VISIBLE ||
                        transientChild.getAnimation() != null) {
                    more |= drawChild(canvas, transientChild, drawingTime);
                }
                transientIndex++;
                if (transientIndex >= transientCount) {
                    transientIndex = -1;
                }
            }

            final int childIndex = getAndVerifyPreorderedIndex(childrenCount, i, customOrder);
            final View child = getAndVerifyPreorderedView(preorderedList, children, childIndex);
            if ((child.mViewFlags & VISIBILITY_MASK) == VISIBLE || child.getAnimation() != null) {
                more |= drawChild(canvas, child, drawingTime);
            }
        }
        while (transientIndex >= 0) {
            // there may be additional transient views after the normal views
            final View transientChild = mTransientViews.get(transientIndex);
            if ((transientChild.mViewFlags & VISIBILITY_MASK) == VISIBLE ||
                    transientChild.getAnimation() != null) {
                more |= drawChild(canvas, transientChild, drawingTime);
            }
            transientIndex++;
            if (transientIndex >= transientCount) {
                break;
            }
        }
        if (preorderedList != null) preorderedList.clear();

        // Draw any disappearing views that have animations
        if (mDisappearingChildren != null) {
            final ArrayList<View> disappearingChildren = mDisappearingChildren;
            final int disappearingCount = disappearingChildren.size() - 1;
            // Go backwards -- we may delete as animations finish
            for (int i = disappearingCount; i >= 0; i--) {
                final View child = disappearingChildren.get(i);
                more |= drawChild(canvas, child, drawingTime);
            }
        }
        if (usingRenderNodeProperties) canvas.insertInorderBarrier();

        if (debugDraw()) {
            onDebugDraw(canvas);
        }

        if (clipToPadding) {
            canvas.restoreToCount(clipSaveCount);
        }

        // mGroupFlags might have been updated by drawChild()
        flags = mGroupFlags;

        if ((flags & FLAG_INVALIDATE_REQUIRED) == FLAG_INVALIDATE_REQUIRED) {
            invalidate(true);
        }

        if ((flags & FLAG_ANIMATION_DONE) == 0 && (flags & FLAG_NOTIFY_ANIMATION_LISTENER) == 0 &&
                mLayoutAnimationController.isDone() && !more) {
            // We want to erase the drawing cache and notify the listener after the
            // next frame is drawn because one extra invalidate() is caused by
            // drawChild() after the animation is over
            mGroupFlags |= FLAG_NOTIFY_ANIMATION_LISTENER;
            final Runnable end = new Runnable() {
               @Override
               public void run() {
                   notifyAnimationListener();
               }
            };
            post(end);
        }
    }



private void removeFromArray(int index) {
        final View[] children = mChildren;
        if (!(mTransitioningViews != null && mTransitioningViews.contains(children[index]))) {
            children[index].mParent = null;
        }
        final int count = mChildrenCount;
        if (index == count - 1) {
            children[--mChildrenCount] = null;
        } else if (index >= 0 && index < count) {
            System.arraycopy(children, index + 1, children, index, count - index - 1);
            children[--mChildrenCount] = null;
        } else {
            throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException();
        }
        if (mLastTouchDownIndex == index) {
            mLastTouchDownTime = 0;
            mLastTouchDownIndex = -1;
        } else if (mLastTouchDownIndex > index) {
            mLastTouchDownIndex--;
        }
    }

仔细阅读这段代码可以发现，在开始处用了一个局部变量childrenCount来记录子View的数量。如果在遍历child的过程中调用removeView删除一个child，就会导致mChildren数组中的最后一个元素为null，当遍历到最后一个child时就会发生NPE异常，因为childrenCount是在dispatchDraw方法开始时就赋值好的，所以在遍历child过程中调用removeView删除view不会及时更新这个值。而且整个dispatchDraw方法中又都是使用：

for (int i = 0; i < childrenCount; i++) {
                final View child = children[i];
                if ((child.mViewFlags & VISIBILITY_MASK) == VISIBLE) {
                    final LayoutParams params = child.getLayoutParams();
                    attachLayoutAnimationParameters(child, params, i, childrenCount);
                    bindLayoutAnimation(child);
                }
            }

来遍历View的。通过post方法在下一个loop循环removeView就不会有这个问题了