Question

I’m trying to launch an activity when my application starts, but it immediately crashes with a runtime exception. Strangely, an identical activity will work just fine, with the only difference being the name of the activity.

Here is what I’m calling:

int SignupActivityId = 0;
Intent intent = new Intent(this, SignupActivity.class); // Crashes
//Intent intent = new Intent(this, NewGameActivity.class); // Doesn't not crash
this.startActivityForResult(intent, SignupActivityId);

Here is the definition for each activity, notice they are practically identical, even to loading the same resource xml:

SignupActivity – Crashes

package com.example.games.MyGame;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SignupActivity extends Activity
{
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.new_game);
    }
}

NewGameActivity – does not crash

package com.example.games.MyGame;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class NewGameActivity extends Activity
{
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.new_game);
    }
}

How can SignupActivity crash, but NewGameActivity doesn’t??

Answer 1

It turns out, after checking LogCat, the layout xml was missing an android:layout_width from one of the views. It turns out that’s required.