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Asked: 2026-06-16T00:57:21+00:00

I have recently stumbled upon an issue with android 4.0.3, where Im getting the

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I have recently stumbled upon an issue with android 4.0.3, where Im getting the following Exception as soon as the application starts (on other android versions it works fine):

java.lang.NullPointerException
at android.view.GLES20RecordingCanvas.drawPatch(GLES20RecordingCanvas.java:97)
at android.graphics.NinePatch.draw(NinePatch.java:125)
at android.graphics.drawable.NinePatchDrawable.draw(NinePatchDrawable.java:189)
at android.widget.ImageView.onDraw(ImageView.java:892)
at android.view.View.draw(View.java:10978)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:2887)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2489)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:2885)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2489)
at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10415)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597)
at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597)
at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597)
at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597)
at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10380)
at android.view.HardwareRenderer$GlRenderer.draw(HardwareRenderer.java:842)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.draw(ViewRootImpl.java:1910)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1634)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2442)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

This is related to having hardware acceleration enabled, as soon as I disable it on the manifest the application starts working just fine.

By doing a search I found a log (inside that doc search for “drawPatch”) on some conversation of Romain Guy, where he discuss a little bit of what could be causing this, although there is no workaround or fix proposed, I wonder if I should disable hardware acceleration only for this version of android, or if there is a workaround for it?

Thanks for your time.

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  1. Editorial Team

    So A-C mentions this in his comment but let me elaborate.

    You can create a boolean in a values file and stick it in the correct version folder. In your manifest under

    Check out this post: https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/DcsFABkyuYM.

    Looks like your going to want to target values-v15/bools.xml

    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH_MR1

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