Question

When I switch to landscape mode, the following custom view throws an exception in Android 1.5r3 cupcake:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.opentable/com.opentable.activity.SearchResults}: 
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong state class -- expecting View State

My code:

public class TextProgressBar extends LinearLayout {
    public TextProgressBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        ((LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE)).inflate(R.layout.text_progress_bar, this, true);
        setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
    }

    public TextProgressBar(Context context) {
        this(context,null);
    }
}

The XML for this view is fairly straightforward:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <ProgressBar
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:indeterminate="true"
        android:id="@+id/progress" />

    <TextView
        android:text="Loading..."
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

Any ideas what might be happening?

Answer 1

Ah, the problem would have been difficult to diagnose as originally stated.

Turns out that inside my custom view my ProgressBar was named @+id/progress, but when I used the custom view TextProgressBar in my layout I also called the TextProgressBar @+id/progress, resulting in two views with the same id.

Renaming one of them fixed the problem.