Error Parsing XML for android:drawable

Question

Hi I am facing a problem I want my application to pick up resources from the framework. Here is my code snippet of an xml.

For this to be achieved following ch

Answer 1

i think i had the same problem, it seems to be a bug in the android eclipse-plugin. the solution is the same as for this question (close eclipse and restart it): android include tag - invalid layout reference

Answer 2

The error

ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3701): Caused by: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Binary XML file line #5: tag requires a 'drawable' attribute or child tag defining a drawable

has to do with the format of your xml, you are setting something like

<item android:background="@foo-value-here" />

What the error is telling you is that it should be like this

<item android:drawable="@foo-value-here" />

Answer 3

Also make android:drawable the first attribute of item tag - it worked for me.