I’ve been experiencing some very strange behavours in an app I’m developing. The app is not very advanced, it stores a couple of places in a sqlite database and is displayed in listviews, on a mapview etc. So, when browsing through my app after deploying it to my phone everything works great, but after a while one listview doesn’t get inflated. A scrollbar appears as if the items were there but I can’t see them. I push the back button to close the app. When revisiting the app my first view, which has two buttons, gets all messed up. The buttons fill the viewport and the background disappears etc. I can’t figure out what’s wrong.
Anyone else facing these problems? My phone is a HTC Desire HD with Android 2.3.5
The app is pretty “layout heavy”, if you know what I mean. The listview items has custom background images, I’m using custom fonts etc. But the app is running smoothly up to the point when it freaks out and displays/don’t display everything wrong.
My first thought is there is some kind of memory issue, ideas?
EDIT:
I believe this might have something to do with defining and using #00000000 as transparent color. Use @android:color/transparent instead.
SOLUTION:
So after doing some testing I found that what I previously mentioned in the edit really is the cause of this problem. I had defined the transparent color in my colors.xml as #00000000. This seems to work, sometimes… And other times it grabs a drawable instead, but not a drawable that is named “transparent”, it grabs ANY drawable. Weird but true.
After some testing I finally found the cause of this problem. I had defined the transparent color in my colors.xml as #00000000. This seems to work, sometimes… And other times it grabs a drawable instead, but not a drawable that is named “transparent”, it grabs ANY drawable. Weird but true.
So to fix this problem you should use @android:color/transparent instead when you want transparency on, for example, a view background.