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Android Build an Interactive Story App The Rest of the Story Wrapping Up

Could not find class 'android.graphics.drawable.RippleDrawable'

I get this error

09-10 09:12:25.393 597-597/? E/Zygote: Zygote:  error closing descriptor
                                       libcore.io.ErrnoException: close failed: EBADF (Bad file number)
                                           at libcore.io.Posix.close(Native Method)
                                           at libcore.io.BlockGuardOs.close(BlockGuardOs.java:75)
                                           at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.closeServerSocket(ZygoteInit.java:221)
                                           at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteConnection.handleChildProc(ZygoteConnection.java:879)
                                           at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteConnection.runOnce(ZygoteConnection.java:242)
                                           at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.runSelectLoop(ZygoteInit.java:715)
                                           at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:651)
                                           at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
09-10 09:12:28.814 597-597/com.zakawat.interactivestory E/dalvikvm: Could not find class 'android.graphics.drawable.RippleDrawable', referenced from method android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatImageHelper.hasOverlappingRendering
09-10 09:12:29.622 597-597/com.zakawat.interactivestory E/ffi_jank: timespan = 59.54523
09-10 09:12:29.980 597-597/com.zakawat.interactivestory E/ffi_jank: timespan = 18.947845
09-10 09:17:21.292 597-597/com.zakawat.interactivestory E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                                          Process: com.zakawat.interactivestory, PID: 597
                                                                          java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.zakawat.interactivestory/com.zakawat.interactivestory.ui.StoryActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2358)
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2410)
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:155)
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1331)
                                                                              at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:110)
                                                                              at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5388)
                                                                              at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
                                                                              at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
                                                                              at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
                                                                              at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:655)
                                                                              at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
                                                                           Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
                                                                              at com.zakawat.interactivestory.ui.StoryActivity.loadPage(StoryActivity.java:60)
                                                                              at com.zakawat.interactivestory.ui.StoryActivity.onCreate(StoryActivity.java:50)
                                                                              at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5280)
                                                                              at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1088)
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2322)
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2410) 
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:155) 
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1331) 
                                                                              at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:110) 
                                                                              at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193) 
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5388) 
                                                                              at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 
                                                                              at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515) 
                                                                              at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 
                                                                              at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:655) 
                                                                              at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 

when compiler reach Drawable image line:

    private void loadPage(int pageNumber) {
        pageStack.push(pageNumber);

        final Page page = story.getPage(pageNumber);
        Drawable image = ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, page.getImageId()); //Error Line
        storyImageView.setImageDrawable(image);

        String pageText = getString(page.getTextId());
        pageText = String.format(pageText, name);
        storyTextView.setText(pageText);

After Debugging for a while I found this

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