Question

I know this has been asked a lot on SO, but unfortunately none of the answers did solve my problem.

I have 3 Android devices for testing + emulator and my app just works fine on all of them, but when I publish the app I get this error (only on few devices, not all):

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{<package>/<package>.<ProjectName>Activity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #10: Error inflating class <package>.MainSurfaceView
 at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
 at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
 at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
 at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
 at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)
 at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)
 at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #10: Error inflating class <package>.MainSurfaceView
 at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:576)
 at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:618)
 at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:407)
 at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
 at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
 at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:198)
 at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1647)
 at <package>.<ProjectName>Activity.onCreate(Unknown Source)
 at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
 ... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: <package>.MainSurfaceView in loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/data/app/<package>-1.apk]
 at dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.findClass(PathClassLoader.java:243)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:573)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:532)
 at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:466)
 at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:565)

The class extends class GLSurfaceView and has 3 constructors (GLSurfaceView supports only 2, but I read on SO that the missing third may cause the problem – it doesn’t).

Class (only constructors):

public class MainSurfaceView extends GLSurfaceView {

    public MainSurfaceView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public MainSurfaceView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs){
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public MainSurfaceView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle){
        super(context, attrs);
    }
}

Adding constructor

public MainSurfaceView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle){
    super(context, attrs);
}

did not solve the problem.

My manifest file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="<package>"
      android:versionCode="5"
      android:versionName="1.2.1">
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />

    <supports-screens android:largeScreens="true"
                      android:anyDensity="true"
                      android:normalScreens="true"
                      android:smallScreens="true"
                      android:resizeable="true" />


    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>

    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:name=".<project>Activity"
                  android:label="@string/app_name"
                  android:screenOrientation="portrait">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <activity android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity"
            android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"
            android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation" />

    </application>
</manifest>

And my layout file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="480dp"
  android:layout_height="800dp"
  android:layout_gravity="center">

    <<package>.MainSurfaceView android:id="@+id/glSurface" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_gravity="top|left"/>

  <com.google.ads.AdView android:id="@+id/adView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="bottom"
    android:visibility="visible"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    ads:adSize="BANNER"
    ads:adUnitId="<id>"
    ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"/>

</FrameLayout>

Thanks for any help. It would be also very helpful if someone can tell me how to recreate the error.

Answer 1

If you have updated to ADTv17 or above, the old ProGuard files will do this to you. Create a new empty project, and see project.properties and proguard-properties and modify your current project accordingly.