TextView styles ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

Question

I have a recurrent crash comming in my admin console from the PlayStore. I can't see why it's crashing. I've never reproduce this crash, it's seems to be comming only from Samsung Galaxy device (not so sure though). From sdk version 4.1 & 4.2 & 4.3

Here is the full StackTrace :

android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #31: Error inflating class <unknown>
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:613)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:660)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:685)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:746)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
at com.android.internal.widget.ActionBarContextView.initClose(ActionBarContextView.java:262)
at com.android.internal.widget.ActionBarContextView.onConfigurationChanged(ActionBarContextView.java:136)
at android.view.View.dispatchConfigurationChanged(View.java:7761)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchConfigurationChanged(ViewGroup.java:1056)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchConfigurationChanged(ViewGroup.java:1060)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchConfigurationChanged(ViewGroup.java:1060)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchConfigurationChanged(ViewGroup.java:1060)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchConfigurationChanged(ViewGroup.java:1060)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.updateConfiguration(ViewRootImpl.java:2800)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1509)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1107)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:4464)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:725)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:555)
at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:525)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:711)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4895)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:994)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:761)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:417)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:587)
... 31 more
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=24; index=691
at android.content.res.StringBlock.get(StringBlock.java:64)
at android.content.res.XmlBlock$Parser.getPooledString(XmlBlock.java:458)
at android.content.res.TypedArray.loadStringValueAt(TypedArray.java:720)
at android.content.res.TypedArray.getString(TypedArray.java:124)
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:916)
at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:562)
... 34 more

I was thinking maybe it's caused by the style I give to TextView (specially the fontFamily). So here is a style from my values-v16 > styles.xml (values-v16) :

 <style name="TextViewHour">
        <item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
        <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
        <item name="android:layout_marginLeft">5dip</item>
        <item name="android:ellipsize">end</item>
        <item name="android:maxLines">1</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/text_hour_size</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/item_hour</item>
        <item name="android:fontFamily">sans-serif-condensed</item>
        <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
    </style>

from values > styles.xml

 <style name="TextViewHour">
        <item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
        <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
        <item name="android:layout_marginLeft">5dip</item>
        <item name="android:ellipsize">end</item>
        <item name="android:maxLines">1</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/text_hour_size</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/item_hour</item>
        <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
    </style> 

here an example of use of a TextView :

<TextView
    style="@style/TextViewHour"
    android:id="@+id/name"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="@color/item_date_separator"/>

I don't have any clue on why my app is crashing on some devices. So if someone have an idea, I'm all ears !

EDIT : It seems that it's not only on galaxy devices, I also have this crash for Nexus 7.

Answer 1

It may possible that the font sans-serif-condensed is not available on some of devices, thats why the app is crashing. If you want to support additional font you can put that in your assests folder and then can create a CustomTextView by extending TextView

public class MyTextView extends TextView {

public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    init();
}

public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    init();
}

public MyTextView(Context context) {
    super(context);
    init();
}

private void init() {
    Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(),
                                           "your_font.ttf");
    setTypeface(tf);
}

}

and in your xml.

<com.mypackage.test.MyTextView
 android:id="@+id/txt"
 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:gravity="center"
 android:layout_weight="1"
 android:text="custom text view. "
 android:textSize="30dip"
 android:textColor="#ff0000"
>