@George_Soloupis
First off, thank you so much for taking your time out to write all this out for me. Truly, user’s like you remind us all why we stand on the shoulders of others. The application finally returns a list size.
However, I’ve also taken the time out to attempt to make it a more visual experience by adding boundingBoxes to attempt to highlight the detected object. I’ve made some changes to the activity_main.xml, the MainActivity.java, as well as the gradle files, as well as adding a new class to draw a graphic overlay above the UI.
Now, here’s where I hit my problem. I’ve encountered the most annoying error; the NullPointerException. Would you happen to know why I’m getting the following error? It’s the final obstacle in completing this application! Here’s what the error states.;

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example.objectdetection, PID: 1789
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to read from field ‘android.widget.FrameLayout com.example.objectdetection.databinding.ActivityMainBinding.parentlayout’ on a null object reference
at com.example.objectdetection.MainActivity.getObjectResults(MainActivity.java:165)
at com.example.objectdetection.MainActivity.lambda$null$0$MainActivity(MainActivity.java:123)
at com.example.objectdetection.-$$Lambda$MainActivity$Ncy1QJiDr5mBgoxw6Tmi2VyNiCU.onSuccess(Unknown Source:4)
at com.google.android.gms.tasks.zzn.run(com.google.android.gms:play-services-tasks@@17.2.0:4)