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Android

my FunFacts app is repeatedly crashing ....help?

FunFact app

Joe Brown
Joe Brown
21,465 Points

You should provide your log output, and then the code, so you can get help with the problem.

public class Funfactsactivity extends AppCompatActivity { // Declare our new variables private TextView mFactTextView; private Button mShowFactButton; /** * ATTENTION: This was auto-generated to implement the App Indexing API. * See https://g.co/AppIndexing/AndroidStudio for more information. */ private GoogleApiClient mClient;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_funfactsactivity);

    mFactTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.factTextView);
    mShowFactButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.showFactButton);


    View.OnClickListener listener = new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            String[] facts = {
                       "Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.",
                        "Ostriches can run faster than horses.",
                        "Olympic gold medals are actually made mostly of silver.",
                        "You are born with 300 bones; by the time you are an adult you will have 206.",
                        "It takes about 8 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Earth.",
                        "Some bamboo plants can grow almost a meter in just one day.",
                        "The state of Florida is bigger than England.",
                        "Some penguins can leap 2-3 meters out of the water.",
                        "On average, it takes 66 days to form a new habit.",
                        "Mammoths still walked the earth when the Great Pyramid was being built"
                                };
            String fact = "";
            Random randomGenerator = new Random();
            int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(facts.length);
            fact = facts[randomNumber];


            mFactTextView.setText(fact);
        }
    };
    mShowFactButton.setOnClickListener(listener);
    // ATTENTION: This was auto-generated to implement the App Indexing API.
    // See https://g.co/AppIndexing/AndroidStudio for more information.
    mClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this).addApi(AppIndex.API).build();
}

Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #34: Error inflating class Button

Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: File res/color/abc_primary_text_disable_only_material_dark.xml from drawable resource ID #0x7f0a004b

Caused by: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Binary XML file line #18: <item> tag requires a 'drawable' attribute or child tag defining a drawable

THIS IS WT MY LOGCAT SAYS!!!!!!

1 Answer

It appears the error may be in your XML file (looking at your log output), perhaps you should share with us the XML for your main activity as well.