I experienced this crash even though I had the RecyclerView.LayoutManager properly set. I had to move the RecyclerView initialization code into the onViewCreated(...) callback to fix this issue.
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_listing, container, false);
rootView.setTag(TAG);
return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_listing, container, false);
}
@Override
public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);
mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity());
mLayoutManager.setOrientation(LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL);
mRecyclerView = (RecyclerView) view.findViewById(R.id.recyclerView);
mRecyclerView.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator());
mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
mAdapter = new ListingAdapter(mListing);
mRecyclerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);
}