android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: Error inflating class <unknown>

Question

I am developing a simple app. Just finished the home screen. If the orientation changes more than two times, it is throwing the error and application is force closing.

My activity Code :

public class PasswordActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
Button login;  
Button forgot;
Button register;  

private static final String PREFERENCES = "prefs";
private static final String PREFERENCES_NAME = "pref_name"; 
SharedPreferences settings;
private Cursor c;

@Override 
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main); 
    login=(Button)findViewById(R.id.login_login);
    login.setOnClickListener(this);
    register=(Button)findViewById(R.id.login_register);
    register.setOnClickListener(this);

}
public void onClick(View v) {
}

}

My Xml Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"    
android:background="@drawable/listpic"
>

<LinearLayout 
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:paddingTop="5dp"
android:paddingLeft="3dp"
android:paddingRight="3dp"
>  
<TextView 
 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:layout_weight="0.75"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:text="@string/login_user_name"
 android:textStyle="bold"
 />
<EditText 
 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_weight="0.25"
 android:id="@+id/login_user_name"
 android:inputType="text"
 />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout 
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:paddingLeft="3dp"
android:paddingRight="3dp"
  >  
<TextView 
 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:layout_weight="0.75"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:text="@string/login_password"
 android:textStyle="bold"
 />
<EditText 
 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_weight="0.25"
 android:inputType="textPassword"
 android:id="@+id/login_password"
 />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout 
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:paddingLeft="3dp"
android:paddingRight="3dp"
  >  
<Button 
 style="@style/left_button"
 android:text="@string/login_submit"
 android:id="@+id/login_login"
 />

<Button 
  style="@style/right_button"
  android:id="@+id/login_register"
  android:text="@string/register"

    />

</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Log Cat Details:

10-21 12:05:59.982: D/dalvikvm(622): GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 774 objects / 56240 bytes in 61ms
10-21 12:06:15.031: D/dalvikvm(622): GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 737 objects / 30992 bytes in 59ms
10-21 12:06:18.022: E/dalvikvm-heap(622): 7596000-byte external allocation too large for this process.
10-21 12:06:18.022: E/GraphicsJNI(622): VM won't let us allocate 7596000 bytes
10-21 12:06:18.043: D/AndroidRuntime(622): Shutting down VM
10-21 12:06:18.043: W/dalvikvm(622): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d800)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.ravi.password/com.ravi.password.PasswordActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: Error inflating class <unknown>
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: Error inflating class <unknown>
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:513)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:563)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:385)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:198)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1647)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at com.ravi.password.PasswordActivity.onCreate(PasswordActivity.java:34)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  ... 12 more
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.widget.LinearLayout.<init>(LinearLayout.java:115)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:446)
 10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:500)
 10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):     ... 22 more
 10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622): Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget
 10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):     at android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCreate(Native Method)
 10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):     at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:468)
 10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):     at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:435)
 10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):     at android.graphics.Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(Bitmap.java:340)
 10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):     at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.finishDecode(BitmapFactory.java:488)
 10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):     at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:462)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream(BitmapFactory.java:323)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  at android.view.ViewGroup.<init>(ViewGroup.java:285)
10-21 12:06:18.092: E/AndroidRuntime(622):  ... 26 more

Images are of very small size around 5kb.

Siddharth · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-06 09:22:20Z

up vote 53 down vote accepted

At runtime, Android resize's images based on need (based on the screen size and resolution). It uses Bitmap's for doing the resizing internally. Which, obviously, is very memory intensive (kinda allocates memory like crazy). One quick way to fix such issues can be, that you copy all drawable files to drawable-ldpi, mdpi, hdpi folders. This way android will just pick up the files from these folders and not resize them.

Its a random kind exception, a real pain to fix.

edited Jan 6 '15 at 9:22

answered Oct 21 '12 at 8:36

Siddharth

5,44964785

1

Thank you.. As you said i have copied all files to drawable-hdpi folder. It's working fine now.. – Ravindra Oct 21 '12 at 11:02

I have the same problem, and cannot see how this is in any way connected to images or resizing. – Ted Feb 17 '13 at 16:48

1

Unable to start activity is connected to the setContentLayout call. And when the activity starts it loads the layout since setContentLayout says so. And as it loads, it looks for images and the rules the layout parameters define it to be. As the Android system decides what it needs to do with images, it starts to resize some of them to fit the rules you have specified in the layout parameters. Need I say more ? – Siddharth Feb 18 '13 at 3:16

@Ravindra, any reason why you choose not to mark this answer as accepted, even after it has solved your issue ? – Siddharth Feb 18 '13 at 3:18

2

but after adding all the drwables in ldpi,mdpi,hdpi and xdpi still its showing the same android inflate exception any idea. – Abhijit Chakra Mar 6 '13 at 6:37

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Siddharth · Answer 2 · 2016-06-09 21:34:42Z

up vote 3 down vote

please follow background image size

for Supported device

LDPI:
Portrait: 200x320px
Landscape: 320x200px
MDPI:
Portrait: 320x480px
Landscape: 480x320px
HDPI:
Portrait: 480x800px
Landscape: 800x480px
XHDPI:
Portrait: 720px1280px
Landscape: 1280x720px

edited Jun 9 at 21:34

Siddharth

5,44964785

answered Dec 26 '14 at 8:22

Mahadev Dalavi

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