my app crashes after adding android:layout_below

Question

i needed help in adding android:layout_below and after adding succesfully now my apps crashes when ever i start to see the result i hope you help me this is my code

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
android:padding="6dip" >

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/secondLine"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="@string/state1"
android:textSize="16sp" />


<TextView
android:id="@+id/secondLine"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="26dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="@id/textView1"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="@string/sayer1"
android:textSize="12sp" />

</RelativeLayout>

and this my logcat

12-18 13:57:18.581: D/AndroidRuntime(2237): Shutting down VM
12-18 13:57:18.581: W/dalvikvm(2237): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x411e62a0)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Circular dependencies cannot exist in RelativeLayout
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.widget.RelativeLayout$DependencyGraph.getSortedViews(RelativeLayout.java:1321)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.widget.RelativeLayout.sortChildren(RelativeLayout.java:316)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onMeasure(RelativeLayout.java:337)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15481)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5107)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:310)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15481)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:833)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:574)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15481)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:5107)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:310)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.onMeasure(PhoneWindow.java:2361)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:15481)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performMeasure(ViewRootImpl.java:1999)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.measureHierarchy(ViewRootImpl.java:1238)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1413)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1131)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:4611)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:725)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:555)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:525)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:711)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4898)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1008)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:775)
12-18 13:57:18.581: E/AndroidRuntime(2237):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

You are assigning a textView1 to android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/secondLine" and to second TextView you are assigning secondLine to android:layout_below="@id/textView1"

it mean you are assigning one textview to another and that second to first one.

this is creting Circular dependencies.

You can not assing TextView1 <--> TextView2 connections. you can assign only single side.

remove either of the line.

android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/secondLine"

or

android:layout_below="@id/textView1"

Answer 2

Both TextViews are pointing to each of them like android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/secondLine" and android:layout_below="@id/textView1" so it forms like circular loop, hence you are getting the error. Remove this android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/secondLine" from first textview

Answer 3

android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/secondLine" // remove this

for textview1

and

android:layout_below="@id/textView1" 

for textView2

causes

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Circular dependencies cannot exist in RelativeLayout

Remove one of them and it should work

Place second TextView with id secondLine relative to TextView with id textview1. You have Circular dependencies which is not possible and hence the error.

You need to place once view relative to another.