Question

I’m developing an android app. So far I’ve been testing everything on my Galaxy Nexus with android 4+. I’ve done all my programming with backwards compatibility in mind.

I’m very close to release, and want to make sure that it runs okay on API 9+. Since I don’t have a real android 2.3 phone, I’m using the emulator.

Everything seems to work fine, but the layout is sometimes okay, and sometimes completely garbled!

The background is horrible, and TextViews are a lot of times missing. But sometimes they’re okay for just a few moments before garbling up.
How reliable is this emulator? Is this how it would really look if I ran it on a real machine? What can cause this?

EDIT:
The layout in the screenshot is made up of 7 small ViewGroups containing ListViews.
This is the code for the main background drawable (the blue-green-gray garbled one):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:src="@drawable/main_bgtile"
    android:tileMode="repeat" />

EDIT2:
I also noticed that when a transaction animation when switching fragments is played, the fragments look perfect for the duration of the animation, and then re-garble when it’s done.

EDIT 3:
My logcat seems to be flooded with the following error:
10-09 00:41:40.385: D/skia(327): SkGL unimplemented: stroke path

A few dozens of those. What should I do to fix this?

Thanks

Answer 1

I solved it:

I’m using actionbarsherlock; and for some reason I decided to disable the actionbar in the style, but then re-request it in the activity.

By removing this line from my onCreate() method in my activity, I was able to solve the problem:
this.getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR)