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

You should copy the image files from the "drawable-24" folder to the "drawable" folder.

Answer 2

For me it happened because I tried to mix xml vector graphics images with ordinary png in the same layout file,

only after I replaced the xml vector graphics with pngs it started to work

Answer 3

i had the same issue and it solved by removing drawable-v24 with (24) in front of images in drawable folder and replacing them with ordinary drawables.

Answer 4

I know this thread is old, but still answering it so that no-one else should spend sleepless nights.

I was refactoring an old project, whose layout files all contained hardcoded attributes such as android:maxLength = 500. So I decided to register it in my res/dimen file as <dimen name="max_length">500</dimen>.

Finished refactoring almost 30 layout files with my res-value. Guess what? the next time I ran my project it started throwing the same InflateException.

As a solution, needed to redo my all changes and keep all-those values as same as before.

TLDR;

step 1: All running good.

step 2: To boost my maintenance I replaced android:maxLength = 500 with <dimen name="max_length">500</dimen> and android:maxLength = @dimen/max_length , that's where it all went wrong(crashing with InflateException).

step 3: All running bad

step 4: Re-do all my work by again replacing android:maxLength = @dimen/max_length with android:maxLength = 500.Everything got fixed.

step 5: All running good.

Answer 5

I had the same error in Crashlytics from a strange device: Motorola One Vision Android 5.1 and 20 GB (free) RAM, rooted This device comes originally with Android 9.0, 4 GB RAM

Probably someone is trying to hack the app I'm currently developing and has problems dealing with multi-APKs. So drawables can't be found and the app delivers the crash

Answer 6

I found the same error, and it took two days to identify what the error was.

The error was simply because I was trying to use: android:background

Rather than: app:srcCompat

in an SVG file.

In your case, I believe this is it

<ImageView 
    android:scaleType="fitXY" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:src="@drawable/tour_11"      <-- the error is here !
 />

I recommend using it this way

add this to your build.gradle app

android {  
   defaultConfig {  
     vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true  
    }  
 }

and

<androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatImageView  <-- use **AppCompatImageView** not **ImageView**
        android:scaleType="fitXY" 
        android:layout_width="match_parent" 
        android:layout_height="match_parent" 
        app:srcCompat="@drawable/tour_11"
     />

I hope this helps.