Android: Android.view.inflateexception: Binary Xml File Line #13: Error Inflating Class In Samsung Galaxy S

I am having a strange error that seems to occur only in Samsung Galaxy S with Android 2.2 (I've tested the application in Motorola Milestone 2 Android 2.2 / Xperia X10 Android 1.6

Solution 1:

Thanks for the answers, but the best explanation I got was here: Inflate a view in a background thread

Basically, it seems that Samsung Galaxy S has an EditText implementation whose inflation can only be done in the UI Thread.

Hope this helps someone who runs into the same kind of problem.

Solution 2:

Don't update your UI from a background thread -- use the UI thread only.

The stack trace looks like the inflation is happening in the doInBackground method of an AsyncTask. That's probably this line:

final ArrayList<View> views = MyClass.b(inflater);

If that's the case, then you should move it out of the background thread. If the code you posted is indeed the doInBackground, you may also want to consider moving your runOnUiThread block into onPostExecute.

Solution 3:

Probably similar problem like there: EditText weird crash on LG Optimus w/Swype (works on emulator and Droids)

It seems that invoking Looper.prepare() in the UI thread will fix this exeption.

More info there: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Looper.html