android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #12: Error inflating class

Question

I am receiving many errors of kind displayed in the subj. These errors seems to be occasional and I cannot reproduce them. From stack I can learn that such error may occurs

Answer 1

The inflate exception is not actually the problem, but really comes from another deeper issue in your layout that is then wrapped in an InflateException. A common issue is an out of memory exception when trying to inflate an imageview loading a drawable resource. If one of this resources has a high pixel resolution it would take a lot of memory causing then an inflate exception.

So basically verify that the pixel resolution in your drawables images are just the minimum necessary for your layout.

Answer 2

I had the same error when creating custom view with only one constructor, try to define all constructor for your custom views.

   public CustomWebView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        init();
    }

    public CustomWebView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init();
    }

    public CustomWebView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        init();
    }

Answer 3

This can also happen if you use a VectorDrawable using support library and forgot to use app:srcCompat instead of android:src

Exact error is: Binary XML file line #XX: Error inflating class ImageView

See that link

Answer 4

I encountered the same bug and found the root reason is:

Use Application Context to inflate view.

Inflating with Activity Context fixed the bug.

Answer 5

In case someone gets similar issues, I had such an issue while inflating the view:

View.inflate(getApplicationContext(), R.layout.my_layout, null)

fixed by replacing getApplicationContext() with this

Answer 6

I had the same error on Kitkat which was because i had android:tint on one of the imageViews. It would work fine on Lollipop but crash on Kikkat with Error Inflating class .

Fixed it by using app:tint on the AppCompatImageView which i was dealing with.