Error inflating class fragment

Question

I get the Error

Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{de.androidbuch.activiti/de.androidbuch.activiti.task.Activity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #11: Error inflating class fragment

when I switch via the portrait and the landscape mode. I'm using fragments. My xml is:

 <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
               android:orientation="horizontal"
               android:layout_width="fill_parent"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

    <ListView android:id="@+id/android:list"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"/> 

    <fragment android:id="@+id/fragmentDetails"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              class="de.androidbuch.activiti.task.TaskDetailsFragment"/> 
</LinearLayout>

If I switch via landscape and portrait mode everything works fine. But when I click on my fragment (and I can see my fragment) and then switch to the other mode I get the error. Any idea how I can solve it? Found some answers here but none of these helped me out...

06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity         
ComponentInfo{de.androidbuch.activiti/de.androidbuch.activiti.task.Activity}:   android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #11: Error inflating class fragment
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1736)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1752)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleRelaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3097)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1600(ActivityThread.java:123)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:997)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:126)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3998)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:841)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:599)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #11: Error inflating class fragment
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:688)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:724)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:727)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:479)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:391)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:347)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:227)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1771)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at de.androidbuch.activiti.task.TaskActivity.onCreate(TaskActivity.java:83)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1048)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1700)
06-21 14:55:05.600: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7636):     ... 12 more

Answer 1

Make sure there is no exception raised in the onCreateView method of the fragment. If any exception is raised in this method, logcat won't show exact details of the exception, instead it always shows the message:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "android.view.fragment" 
on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.package/base.apk"],
nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.package/lib/arm64, /vendor/lib64, /system/lib64]]
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)

Answer 2

My problem in this case was a simple instance of having a dumb null pointer exception in one of my methods that was being invoked later in the lifecycle. This was causing the "Error inflating class fragment" exception for me. In short, please remember to check the further down the exception stack trace for a possible cause.

Once I resolved the null pointer exception, my fragment loaded fine.

Answer 3

make sure that u have used this one

<meta-data
            android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
            android:value="AIzaSyBEwmfL0GaZmdVqdTxxxxxxxx-rVgvY" />

not this..

<meta-data 
         android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" 
          android:value="AIzaSyBEwmfL0GaZmdVqdTCvxxxxxxx-rVgvY" /> 

Answer 4

For me it was after scrolling in the stack trace i found im missing the permission for android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

after adding this permission it was fixed

Answer 5

Have you tried:

 <fragment
            android:name="de.androidbuch.activiti.task.TaskDetailsFragment"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent" />

Answer 6

Check you class path, this could be the view inflator could not find your class definition as defined in your xml class="de.androidbuch.activiti.task.TaskDetailsFragment" the above path could be wrong.