IncompatibleClassChangeError: android.support.design.internal.NavigationMenuView

Question

I get one really strange error when testing an activity that uses the design library:

android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #28: Error inflating class android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:640)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:750)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:813)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:511)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:415)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:366)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:257)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:109)
    at de.stephanlindauer.criticalmaps.Main.onCreate(Main.java:77)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6550)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1120)
    at android.support.test.runner.MonitoringInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(MonitoringInstrumentation.java:534)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3102)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3248)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1000(ActivityThread.java:197)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1681)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6872)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1404)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1199)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
Caused by: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: android.support.design.internal.NavigationMenuView

Anyone had the problem and found a way around it? The activity works outside the espresso-tests

using espresso 2.2.1

here the layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="@dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material"
            android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
            android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" />

        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@+id/content_frame"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/drawer_navigation"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        app:itemIconTint="@android:color/white"
        app:itemTextColor="@android:color/white"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_header"
        app:menu="@menu/drawer" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

the dependencies:

dependencies {
    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.1.0'
    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:23.1.0'

    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test:runner:0.4.1'
    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test:rules:0.4.1'
    androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:2.2.1'

    androidTestCompile 'com.squareup.spoon:spoon-client:1.2.0'
    androidTestCompile 'com.squareup.assertj:assertj-android:1.1.1'

    androidTestCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.9.5'
    androidTestCompile 'com.google.dexmaker:dexmaker-mockito:1.2'

    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.squareup:otto:1.3.8'
    compile 'org.osmdroid:osmdroid-android:4.3'
    compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.6.1'
    compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.1.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:23.1.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.5.0'
    compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:7.0.1'
    compile 'org.ligi:AXT:0.35'
    compile 'com.google.dagger:dagger:2.0.2'

    provided 'javax.annotation:jsr250-api:1.0'
    apt 'com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.0.2'

    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    testCompile 'com.squareup.assertj:assertj-android:1.1.0'
    testCompile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:23.1.0'
    testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.9.5'
}

Answer 1

Espresso depends on a number of support dependencies, and as of the latest version of Espresso (2.2.1), they're all out of date. You've worked around this by including some of them as test dependencies explicitly, but you forgot one: recyclerview-v7.

You need to either include recylerview-v7 as a test dependency or exclude it from contrib. I prefer to just exclude those dependencies so it'll default to my normal compile dependencies:

androidTestCompile ('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.1') {
    exclude module: 'support-annotations'
}
androidTestCompile ('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:2.2.1') {
    exclude module: 'support-annotations'
    exclude module: 'support-v4'
    exclude module: 'recyclerview-v7'
}

Answer 2

Try this.Replace with this code.Hopefully it will work.

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/navigation_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="left"
    app:headerLayout="@layout/layout_drawer_header"
    app:menu="@menu/drawer_menu"
    app:itemTextColor="@color/some_color"/>