Exception when focusing a EditText in a PopupWindow running on Device

Question

I\'m developing a PopUp window for Android, and it\'s working, I added a EditText and a Button on that, when running on ADV this work properly, while running on device, when I f

Answer 1

Thank you, TheRedPill! I had the same problem with EditText inside PopupWindow behaving stragely. It worked on Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X but crashed on Huawei MediaPad FHD 10. As soon as I started editing the application crashed.

Your solution:

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);

Solved the issue for me.

The stack-trace was:

08-15 15:49:03.690: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8692): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token android.view.ViewRootImpl$W@417eefa8 is not valid; is your activity running?
    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.setView(ViewRootImpl.java:585)
    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:326)
    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:224)
    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl$CompatModeWrapper.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:149)
    at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:547)
    at android.widget.PopupWindow.invokePopup(PopupWindow.java:988)
    at android.widget.PopupWindow.showAtLocation(PopupWindow.java:845)
    at android.widget.PopupWindow.showAtLocation(PopupWindow.java:809)
    at android.widget.Editor$PinnedPopupWindow.updatePosition(Editor.java:2147)
    at android.widget.Editor$PinnedPopupWindow.show(Editor.java:2104)
    at android.widget.Editor$SuggestionsPopupWindow.show(Editor.java:2349)
    at android.widget.Editor.showSuggestions(Editor.java:1647)
    at android.widget.Editor$1.run(Editor.java:1546)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)