Change Activity layout

In my app i want to change the Activity contentview if a button was clicked for example.

In the begining i call the first layou:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);  

        setContentView(R.layout.catalog);

    }

and when a button was pressed i call this one:

public void showItemActivity(int position){

        setContentView(R.layout.item_view);

    }

and in this method my app crash.

i need to say that if i try this method:

setContentView(R.layout.item_view);

in the begin of another Activity it work perfectly, but it reali important for me that it will be in the same Activity .

Edit

the logchat error msg:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Your content must have a ListView whose id attribute is 'android.R.id.list'