Error inflating Fragment in Dialog the second time

Question

I have the following code in an Activity that starts a dialog for a layout that contains a fragment.

...
case R.id.pick_resource:
        dialog = new Dialog(this);
        dialog.setContentView(R.layout.resource_picker);
        dialog.setCancelable(true);
        dialog.setTitle("Pick a resource");
        dialog.show();

This works very well the first time after application start, but when the dialog is quit and later called again, I get this stack trace:

08-10 10:47:33.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(26521): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
        android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #7: Error inflating class fragment
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:688)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:724)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:479)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:391)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:347)
        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:224)
        at android.app.Dialog.setContentView(Dialog.java:449)
        at org.rhq.pocket.StartActivity.onOptionsItemSelected(StartActivity.java:118)
        at android.app.Activity.onMenuItemSelected(Activity.java:2390)
        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.onMenuItemSelected(PhoneWindow.java:852)
        at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuItemImpl.invoke(MenuItemImpl.java:153)
        at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.performItemAction(MenuBuilder.java:956)
        at com.android.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuView.invokeItem(ActionMenuView.java:174)
        at com.android.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuItemView.onClick(ActionMenuItemView.java:85)
        at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:3100)
        at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:11644)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:126)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3997)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:841)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:599)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
        Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Binary XML file line #7: Duplicate id 0x7f090007, tag null, or parent id 0xffffffff with another fragment for org.rhq.pocket.ResourcePickerFragement
        at android.app.Activity.onCreateView(Activity.java:4089)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:664)
        ... 24 more

Any idea, what may cause this exception? Do I have to unload the fragment somehow?

Answer 1

Another answer that could help someone else: I had a similar problem but instead of destroying the fragment in the onDestroy, I had to move it to onPause in order to get it to work:

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    if(adFragment != null){
        childFragmentManager.beginTransaction().remove(adFragment).commitAllowingStateLoss();
    }
    super.onPause();
}

Answer 2

Does the fragment in your layout have an android:id attribute?

I suspect this is because the fragment is instantiated each time your layout is inflated, the first time the ID isn't being used, but the second time the FragmentManager still thinks your Fragment is alive, so the ID is considered a duplicate.

Try removing the android:id attribute from your fragment if it exists, or add a placeholder layout such as a framelayout and use a fragmenttransaction to dynamically add the fragment each time your dialog is created.

Answer 3

I had a similar problem

I solved it very easy

deleting all fragments when close dialog

This is my dialog

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="310dp"
    android:layout_height="260dp" >

     <fragment
        android:layout_width="310dp"
        android:layout_height="260dp"
        android:tag="one"
        class="com.android.mushrooms.CookingProgressFragment" />

    <fragment
        android:layout_width="310dp"
        android:layout_height="260dp"
        android:tag = "two"
        class="com.android.mushrooms.CookingInfoFragment" />

</RelativeLayout>

and that's what happens when you delete a dialog

dialog.findViewById(R.id.cifButtonClose)
                .setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View v) {
                        mDragController.endDrag();

                        FragmentTransaction ft2 = getSupportFragmentManager()
                                .beginTransaction();

                        ft2.remove( getSupportFragmentManager()
                                .findFragmentByTag("one"));
                        ft2.remove( getSupportFragmentManager()
                                .findFragmentByTag("two"));
                        ft2.commit();
                        dialog.dismiss();
                    }
                });

Answer 4

On android.view.inflateexception: binary xml file line #8: error inflating class fragment error :

Try removing the android:id attribute from your fragment if it exists. and on dismiss dialog add the following code: it works for me

activity.getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().remove(activity.getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.mMap_location)).commit();

Answer 5

Try as follows

public class ABDCD{
    private Dialog dialog = null;
    private View viewHoldingDialog = null;
    ----------------------------

case R.id.pick_resource:
    dialog = new Dialog(this,R.style.Theme_Dialog_Translucent);
    dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    viewHoldingDialog = (ViewGroup) layoutInflater.inflate(
            R.layout.resource_picker, null);
    dialogLayoutParams = new LayoutParams(android.view.WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, android.view.WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
    dialog.addContentView(viewHoldingDialog,


    dialogLayoutParams);

}

Answer 6

Maybe this can help someone:

I use the code of Эвансгелист Evansgelist, but with a DialogFragment that has a layout with a MapFragment, the code have to be onDestroy block:

@Override
public void onDestroy(){
    super.onDestroy();
    FragmentTransaction ft2 = getActivity().getFragmentManager()
            .beginTransaction();

    ft2.remove( getFragmentManager()
            .findFragmentById(R.id.map_map));
    ft2.commit();
}

This is my layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
         xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="match_parent"
         tools:context="com.example"
>
<fragment
      android:id="@+id/map_map"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent"
      android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment"/>
</FrameLayout>