Question

I have this strack trace from the Developer Console on Google Play so I have no way to reproduce this exception cause I don’t know what triggers it. The user also didn’t leave any message, so…

java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #17: You must supply a layout_height attribute.
at android.content.res.TypedArray.getLayoutDimension(TypedArray.java:491)
at android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams.setBaseAttributes(ViewGroup.java:5319)
at android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams.<init>(ViewGroup.java:5271)
at android.widget.AbsListView$LayoutParams.<init>(AbsListView.java:6398)
at android.widget.AbsListView.generateLayoutParams(AbsListView.java:6035)
at android.widget.AbsListView.generateLayoutParams(AbsListView.java:96)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:477)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
at com.android.internal.view.menu.ListMenuPresenter$MenuAdapter.getView(ListMenuPresenter.java:253)
at android.widget.AbsListView.obtainView(AbsListView.java:2212)
at android.widget.ListView.measureHeightOfChildren(ListView.java:1244)
at android.widget.ListView.onMeasure(ListView.java:1155)
at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12863)
at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:4698)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:293)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.onMeasure(PhoneWindow.java:2256)
at android.view.View.measure(View.java:12863)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1166)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2552)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4507)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:790)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:557)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

How do I pinpoint the problem?

Answer 1

This is Android’s internal error, nothing in your code. You don’t even see your app’s code in stack trace, and your app works on many other devices.

I’m getting similar occasional crash reports, and also similar crashes on some Android versions (using ACRA). I’ve seen “You must supply a layout_height attribute” unexpected crash a few times.

If you use ACRA or similar, sometimes you just get reports for which your app is not responsible at all.