listview - Why view return null in android

I have 3 activity that display listview and it has an image to display icon and textview to display data. I want to make an adapter that can use general for my listview on these activity. But when I run my app, the logcat show me null pointer exception.

08-25 22:43:04.090 28942-28942/com.example.xiaoking.dilibus A/art: art/runtime/thread.cc:1113] Throwing new exception 'Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean android.view.View.isSelected()' on a null object reference' with unexpected pending exception: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'int android.view.View.getImportantForAccessibility()' on a null object reference

I know reason for this error is my convertview return null. But I don't know why and how I can fixed it?.

Here is my adapter:

List listObjects;
Context context;
ViewHolder viewHolder;
int typeOfObject;

public CustomCityAdapter(Context context, List objects) {
    this.listObjects  = objects;

    this.context = context;
}

public CustomCityAdapter(Context context, List objects, int typeOfObject) {
    this.listObjects  = objects;
    this.context = context;
    this.typeOfObject = typeOfObject;
}

public void setArrayListCity(List listObjects) {

    this.listObjects = listObjects;
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return listObjects.size();
}

@Override
public Object getItem(int position) {

    return listObjects.get(position);
}

@Override
public long getItemId(int position) {
    return 0;
}

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    City city = new City();
    getObject(city,position,convertView,parent);
    viewHolder.textView.setText(city.getCityName());
    return convertView;
}

private void getObject(Object object, int position, View convertView,ViewGroup parent){
     object = getItem(position);
    if(convertView == null) {
        convertView = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.custom_cell_list_cities, parent, false);

        viewHolder = new ViewHolder();
        viewHolder.textView = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv_cell_item_city);
        convertView.setTag(viewHolder);
    }
    else {
        viewHolder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
    }
}

Here is my activity:

Toolbar toolbar;
CustomCityAdapter myAdapter;
ArrayList arrCities = new ArrayList();
CustomListView myListView;
CoordinatorLayout viewCoordinatorLayout;
boolean isDownloadSuccess  = true;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_choosing_city);
    findViewByID();
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    loadCityToListView();
    //downloadAndInsertCityToDB();
    myListView.setCities(arrCities);
    myListView.myListViewSetOnClickListener(this, SearchingTicketActivity.RESULT_CODE_SAVE);

    Log.d("Test","OncreateChoosing");
}

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    loadCityToListView();
}

@Override

public void findViewByID() {
    toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.choosing_city_activity_toolbar);
    myListView = (CustomListView)findViewById(R.id.lv_cities);
    viewCoordinatorLayout = (CoordinatorLayout)findViewById(R.id.coordinatorLayoutChoosing);
}

@Override
public void setOnClickListener() {
    super.setOnClickListener();
}


private void loadCityToListView() {
    arrCities = DiLiBusDatabaseHelper.getInstance(this).getListCities();
    // CustomListView myListView = new CustomListView(this);
    myAdapter = new CustomCityAdapter(this, arrCities);
    myListView.setAdapter(myAdapter);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_choosing_city, menu);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.search).getActionView();
    searchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

}

@Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {


    return setOnQueryTextListenerSearchView(newText);
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();
}

@Override
protected boolean setOnQueryTextListenerSearchView(String query) {

    if (query.equals("")) {
        arrCities = DiLiBusDatabaseHelper.getInstance(this).getListCities();
        myAdapter.setArrayListCity(arrCities);
        myAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
        myListView.setCities(arrCities);
        return true;
    }
    arrCities = DiLiBusDatabaseHelper.getInstance(this).getListCityByName(query);
    myAdapter.setArrayListCity(arrCities);
    myAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

    myListView.setCities(arrCities);
    Log.d("List Size: ", arrCities.size() + "");
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onSupportNavigateUp() {
    onBackPressed();
    return true;
}

Answer

I found problem in this function:

getObject(city,position,convertView,parent);

and

convertView = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.custom_cell_list_cities, parent, false);

If convertView == null, in getObject method, convertView will be assigned new value.

But convertView is only has value in getObject method, and in getView, below getObject(city,position,convertView,parent); , convertView is null.