I've run into an odd bug that only occurs on API9 and API10 devices. On API8 devices, my code works as expected. Let me lay the groundwork:
I have a Preferences Activity and I want the look of it to be similar to the rest of my application, so I apply a theme, based on Theme.Light. Here's my Preferences: <PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; android:title="@string/settings_title"> <PreferenceCategory android:title="@string/heading_user_prefs"> <EditTextPreference android:title="@string/label_emailAddress" android:summary="@string/not_set" android:key="@string/key_emailAddress" android:capitalize="none" android:inputType="textEmailAddress" android:singleLine="true" /> </PreferenceCategory> <PreferenceCategory android:title="@string/heding_misc_options"> <CheckBoxPreference android:title="@string/label_option1" android:summaryOn="@string/summary_option1_enabled" android:summaryOff="@string/summary_option1_disabled" android:key="@string/key_option1" android:defaultValue="false" /> </PreferenceCategory> </PreferenceScreen> Here's my Theme: <style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light"> <item name="android:windowTitleBackgroundStyle">@style/MyWindowTitle</item> <item name="android:listSeparatorTextViewStyle">@style/MyPreferenceCategory</item> </style> My theme was working find until I added the last item - the listSeparatorTextViewStyle. Here's the definition of that: <style name="MyPreferenceCategory" parent="@android:style/Widget.TextView.ListSeparator.White"> <item name="android:background">@drawable/my_category_bg</item> </style> Now, on Android 2.2 (API8) devices, this works as expected. When I load my Preferences Activity, I get the look I expect. On API9/10 devices I get the classic Force Close: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): FATAL EXCEPTION: main ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #18: You must supply a layout_width attribute. ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.content.res.TypedArray.getLayoutDimension(TypedArray.java:491) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams.setBaseAttributes(ViewGroup.java:3598) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams.<init>(ViewGroup.java:3551) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.widget.AbsListView$LayoutParams.<init>(AbsListView.java:4314) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.widget.AbsListView.generateLayoutParams(AbsListView.java:4108) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.widget.AbsListView.generateLayoutParams(AbsListView.java:74) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.preference.Preference.onCreateView(Preference.java:412) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.preference.Preference.getView(Preference.java:389) ERROR/AndroidRuntime(3145): at android.preference.PreferenceGroupAdapter.getView(PreferenceGroupAdapter.java:221) Clearly the Binary XML file is not mine, since it's a PreferenceActivity. It mentions a layout_width attribute is missing, so for kicks I declare one. When I run it again, I get a FC complaining that it's missing a layout_width attribute. I supply that and the Preference come up, but the text is not the right color. As a test, I simply copied all the inherited attributes to my style and is displays normally. So, as a workaround, for now, I created a values-v9 dir with this special styles.xml file in it. It appears that nothing is getting inherited from the parent style: Widget.TextView.ListSeparator.White. Why is that? What changed in API9 that's causing parent attributes to not get inherited? As for my build environment, I'm using: Android SDK Tools: r10 Android SDK Platform-tools: r3 Building against SDK Platform Android 2.2, API8: r2 Oracle JDK 1.6.0_24 Is this a bug and I should open a report, or did something change in API9 that I'm unaware of? Thanks, - Rick Alther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
