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Asked: May 15, 20262026-05-15T00:29:35+00:00 2026-05-15T00:29:35+00:00

I am receiving an inflation error when pressing the Menu button and adding a

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I am receiving an inflation error when pressing the Menu button and adding a menu item in the onCreateOptionsMenu method. I’ve included some of the error below.

The code is as follows, and works if I try it on its own and not as part of my activity as a whole. I don’t think it’s feasible to paste in the whole of my activity here (I have no idea which bit could be causing this), so am wondering if anyone has experienced this before?

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu m) {
    Log.d(TAG, "Menu Create");
    this.menu = m;
    m.add(0, 0, 0, "HAZAH!");
    return true;
}

05-24 17:18:47.963: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1658): android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #17: Error inflating class com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView
05-24 17:18:47.963: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1658): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:513)
05-24 17:18:47.963: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1658): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:565)
05-24 17:18:47.963: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1658): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:385)

05-24 17:18:47.963: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1658): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
05-24 17:18:47.963: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1658): at com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView.<init>(IconMenuItemView.java:86)

05-24 17:18:47.963: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1658): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
05-24 17:18:47.963: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1658): at com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView.<init>(IconMenuItemView.java:86)


If I try pressing Menu with the debugger attached I see it stop here:

Suspended (exception InflateException)
ViewRoot.deliverKeyEventToViewHierarchy(KeyEvent, boolean) line: 2425   

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    2026-05-15T00:29:36+00:00Added an answer on May 15, 2026 at 12:29 am

    This was occurring as I had assigned a theme to the Activity which contained the following line:

    <item name="android:text"></item>
    

    I was using this to remove the app name text in the title bar. I guess this isn’t the right way to do it! Luckily this was one of the recent changes to my app so I was able to track it down (eventually).

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