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LoneDuck
LoneDuck

Reputation: 1872

Android - Emulator showing garbled layout

I'm developing an android app. So far I've been testing everything on my Galaxy Nexus with android 4+. I've done all my programming with backwards compatibility in mind.

I'm very close to release, and want to make sure that it runs okay on API 9+. Since I don't have a real android 2.3 phone, I'm using the emulator.

Everything seems to work fine, but the layout is sometimes okay, and sometimes completely garbled!

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The background is horrible, and TextViews are a lot of times missing. But sometimes they're okay for just a few moments before garbling up. How reliable is this emulator? Is this how it would really look if I ran it on a real machine? What can cause this?

EDIT: The layout in the screenshot is made up of 7 small ViewGroups containing ListViews. This is the code for the main background drawable (the blue-green-gray garbled one):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:src="@drawable/main_bgtile"
    android:tileMode="repeat" />

EDIT2: I also noticed that when a transaction animation when switching fragments is played, the fragments look perfect for the duration of the animation, and then re-garble when it's done.

EDIT 3: My logcat seems to be flooded with the following error: 10-09 00:41:40.385: D/skia(327): SkGL unimplemented: stroke path

A few dozens of those. What should I do to fix this?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 444

Answers (1)

LoneDuck
LoneDuck

Reputation: 1872

I solved it:

I'm using actionbarsherlock; and for some reason I decided to disable the actionbar in the style, but then re-request it in the activity.

By removing this line from my onCreate() method in my activity, I was able to solve the problem: this.getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR)

Upvotes: 2

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