Question

I am getting the following error, which I don’t understand…

06-15 22:06:49.196: W/dalvikvm(17622): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40bcc1f8)
06-15 22:07:05.031: W/dalvikvm(17877): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40bcc1f8)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.whipple.android/com.whipple.android.StockActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #6: Error inflating class ViewPager
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1968)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1993)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:127)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1159)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4512)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:794)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:561)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #6: Error inflating class ViewPager
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:691)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:739)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:272)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1851)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at com.whipple.android.StockActivity.onCreate(StockActivity.java:17)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4481)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1052)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1932)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    ... 11 more
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: android.view.ViewPager
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:61)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:552)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:636)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:66)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:653)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:678)
06-15 22:07:05.031: E/AndroidRuntime(17877):    ... 21 more

This is my code…

public class StockActivity extends Activity {
public ListAdapter listadapter;
private StockPageAdapter myAdapter;
private ViewPager myPager;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    super.setContentView(R.layout.main);

    this.myAdapter = new StockPageAdapter(this);
    this.myPager = (ViewPager)super.findViewById(R.id.pager);
    this.myPager.setAdapter(myAdapter);
}

It’s a ListAdapter with a ViewPager to scroll through the lists. I’m extending BaseAdapter and inflating the view with this code…

LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.row, null);

Could someone please help me to understand what is wrong.

Answer 1

What does your XML look like in the layout file? If you simply put

<ViewPager
    android:layout_width="..."
    android:layout_height="..." />

Your application will crash because ViewPager is not located in the core SDK package with other widgets, it’s in the support library. You need to put the fully qualified name

<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
    android:layout_width="..."
    android:layout_height="..." />

Also, as others have mentioned, make sure the support library JAR is properly included in your project.

HTH