Error inflating class android.support.design.widge

Question

I followed a tutorial of new component NavigationView in Support Design Library and can't get through this error message :

Error inflating class android.support.design.widget.NavigationView

I tried every workaround here

Error when using any Android Design Support Library Elements

but error message still exists.

xml

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true" >
    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <include layout="@layout/toolbar" android:id="@+id/mainToolBar" />

    <fragment android:name="com.ais.cherry.fragment.LoginFragment"
        android:id="@+id/loginFragment"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_below="@id/mainToolBar" />
    <fragment     android:name="com.ais.cherry.fragment.WaterFallFragment"
        android:id="@+id/mainFragment"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_below="@id/mainToolBar" />
    <fragment android:name="com.ais.cherry.fragment.SearchFragment"
        android:id="@+id/searchFragment"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_below="@id/mainToolBar" />
    <fragment android:name="com.ais.cherry.fragment.ChatMainFragment"
        android:id="@+id/chatMainFragment"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_below="@id/mainToolBar" />
    <fragment android:name="com.ais.cherry.fragment.ProfileFragment"
        android:id="@+id/profileFragment"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_below="@id/mainToolBar" />


    <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:layout_width="240dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        app:itemTextColor="#212121"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_header"
        app:menu="@menu/drawer" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.+'
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.2.3'
    }
}

compileSdkVersion 22
buildToolsVersion "22.0.1"

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.ais.cherry"
    minSdkVersion 16
    targetSdkVersion 22      
    multiDexEnabled true
    renderscriptTargetApi 22
    renderscriptSupportModeEnabled true

}
dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:22.2.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:22.2.0'
}

Project build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.2.3'
    }
}

styles.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppTheme.Base">

</style>

<style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
    <item name="android:actionModeStyle">@style/AppTheme.ActionModeStyle</item>
    <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <!-- Support library compatibility -->
    <item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>

    <!-- ActionBar color -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">#E91E63</item>
    <!-- Status bar color -->
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#C2185B</item>
    <!-- Window color -->
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/white</item>
    <!-- ActionBar title text -->
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/AppTheme.MyActionBarTitleText</item>

    <item name="colorAccent">#9E9E9E</item>

    <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/AppTheme.MyDrawerArrowStyle</item>

    <!-- color for actionMenu-->
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">#FFFFFF</item>
    <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#FFFFFF</item>
    <!-- android:textColorSecondary is the color of the menu
   overflow icon (three vertical dots) -->
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#212121</item>
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">#FFFFFF</item>
    <!--Navigation bar color-->
    <item name="android:navigationBarColor">#E91E63</item>
    <!--Status bar color-->
    <item name="android:statusBarColor">#C2185B</item>
</style>

Any help would be appreciated!

Edit -- add @menu/drawer & @menu/drawer_header & stacktrace

drawer.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <group android:checkableBehavior="single">
        <item
            android:id="@+id/nav_first_fragment"
            android:icon="@drawable/home_view"
            android:checked="true"
            android:title="@string/main"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/nav_second_fragment"
            android:icon="@drawable/comment_view"
            android:title="@string/chat"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/nav_third_fragment"
            android:icon="@drawable/user_view"
            android:title="@string/profile"/>
        <item android:title="@string/search">
            <menu>
                <item
                    android:title="@string/clothes"/>
                <item
                    android:title="@string/pants"/>
            </menu>
        </item>
    </group>
</menu>

drawer_header.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="192dp"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimaryDark"
    android:padding="16dp"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
    android:gravity="bottom">
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/title"
        android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Body1"/>
</LinearLayout>

StackTrace (only part of them)

It thrown out three exceptions as below : all points out that the problems is caused by the line of "setContentView(layout)" at in layout.xml.

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity  ComponentInfo{com.ais.cherry/com.ais.cherry.activity.FirstActivity}:    android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #32: Error inflating    class android.support.design.widget.NavigationView

Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #32: Error inflating class android.support.design.widget.NavigationView

Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x0

Answer 1

BETTER I UPGRADED com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.0

as @Ton said downgrade compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.0'

BUT Why not to upgrade com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1

Final upgraded worked for me enjoy

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1'
compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.1'

So why to use older library. I think is now better to use both design and compact upgraded.

Answer 2

I was also having this same issue, after looking nearly 3 hours I find out that the problem was in my drawable_menu.xml file, it was wrongly written :D

Answer 3

None of the above fixes worked for me.

What worked for me was changing

<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#FFFFFF</item>

to

<item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/colorWhite</item>

You obviously need to add colorWhite to your colors.xml

Answer 4

I had similar error. When i use

<style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

    <item name="colorPrimary">#673AB7</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#512DA8</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">#00BCD4</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#212121</item>
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">#727272</item>

</style>

works for me when i remove the android:textColorPrimary and android:textColorSecondary theme items.

<style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

    <item name="colorPrimary">#673AB7</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#512DA8</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">#00BCD4</item>

</style>

Try working with a very simple App theme to start off with.

EDIT:

This tutorial will help. My understanding is that using "android:textColorPrimary" requires minimum api level 21. Using the same tag without "android:" uses the design support library. Any support library widget will try to find the "textColorPrimary" item instead of "android:textColorPrimary" and if it fails to find the same it throws the above mentioned error.