Android Question Custom View Initialize2 , a No No ?

[Cableguy]

I have been trying all day to implement an "initialize2" method into one of my custom Views, but it errors with a bizarre java.lang.NullPointerException: null receiver.

If I change The sub declaration to "Initialize", without changing anything else in the code, it all works as expected...

Is it right to assume that such declaration is forbidden?

 

[Erel]

The Initialize method and only this method is considered a special method that should be first called when initializing classes. An Initialize2 sub will be treated like any other regular sub.