Android Application Crashes With Orientation Changes

Question

I have an Android page containg 3 images a background and edit text and button, and the manifest file the activity given as:

<activity
     Android:name="SearchScreen"
     >
</activity>

I have two XML one for potrait and another for landscape. when orientation changes there is no problem for first some changes but when it changes frequently some more time the application crashes and the error seems like this

> Android.view.InflateException on orientation change

and also give some VM memory out of bounds.

and the error log is like bellow

 11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.af.screenmanager/com.af.screenmanager.SearchScreen}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #61: Error inflating class <unknown>
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1659)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1675)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleRelaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2853)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1600(ActivityThread.java:121)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:947)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3701)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:866)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:624)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #61: Error inflating class <unknown>
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:518)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:568)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:623)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:626)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:626)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:626)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:408)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.setContentView(FragmentActivity.java:304)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at com.af.screenmanager.SearchScreen.onCreate(SearchScreen.java:131)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1623)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    ... 12 more
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:415)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:505)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    ... 24 more
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448): Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeAsset(Native Method)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:494)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream(BitmapFactory.java:370)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromResourceStream(Drawable.java:715)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1720)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:585)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.graphics.drawable.StateListDrawable.inflate(StateListDrawable.java:162)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXmlInner(Drawable.java:805)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXml(Drawable.java:746)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1705)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDrawable(TypedArray.java:601)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.view.View.<init>(View.java:1975)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:370)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.widget.Button.<init>(Button.java:108)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    at android.widget.Button.<init>(Button.java:104)
    11-21 15:09:55.832: E/AndroidRuntime(32448):    ... 27 more

This error ocurs with sony erricson Xperia only

android.view.InflateException would mean that you got exception in an inflater in your code — , Nov 18 '11 at 07:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 18 '11 at 07:22

Add to your activity in manifest the following code

<activity android:name="SearchScreen"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden">
</activity>

You can also use Async task to make this happen so that.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '13 at 08:43

If you have heavy bitmaps in your layout try calling recycle for them in activity's onDestory method

@Override 
public void onDestroy(){
    ImageView imageViewWithHeavyBitmap = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageview);
    imageViewWithHeavyBitmap.getDrawable().getBitmap().recycle();
}

Android Application Crashes With Orientation Changes

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