Android UI and Inflate Exception

Error : Inflate Exception : Binary xml .....

I can't say how frequently you guys face this error but when it occurs surely takes quite time.

Whenever one face such an exception, the greatest possibility is with the child view not being able to initialize correctly which could be due to the following reasons :


1. The layout file must be including some CustomView which is not being correctly referenced or sometimes if it is referenced, there could be some error with in the implementation (one reason of which could be the absence of constructor with attribute set, theme etc.)

2. If you think that case one is checked, then please check once for the view that causes the inflation failure. Need to check if the drawing is successful for that view.

You will get the easiest reasons quickly but one of the most elusive causal reason is the error in background drawable which may or may not give error at compile time.

So little digging is required here.