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Norbert
Norbert

Reputation: 357

Android Resource not found exception

So I am not such a newbie in Programming, Java or Android developing, but I got a strange issue: I have made an application, quite advanced, and have it on market.

For now I have over 1000 installs and I have around 4 or 5 crash reports for a ResourceNotFoundException. The strangest thing is that the line it crashes on is on 

setContentView(R.layout.some_custom_layout)

In code I am always referring to resourced by

someTxtView.setText(R.string.some_string)

So I am wondering if I used 

mContext.getResources().getDrawable(mContext.getResources().getIdentifier("some_string", "string", "my.example.package"));

would the crash go away?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6310

Answers (5)

Sashashpola
Sashashpola

Reputation: 9

someTxtView.setText(R.string.some_string)

There you set integer value to text. Its not correctly becouse it search a resousre on this value. You must write 

someTextView.setText(getResources().getText(R.string.blabla));

Upvotes: 0

Brijesh Thakur
Brijesh Thakur

Reputation: 6788

I was facing the same issue and I fixed it by creating Layout Folder called "layout-small".

Based on resolutions I have created only 2 folders "layout-large" and "layout-medium". But few phones are having lower resolution it doesn't find proper resources as per the resolution. Android OS renders xml resources as per resolution. It goes and find the resources in required folders.

95+ % Android phones having resolution which matches "layout-normal" folder. But still there are Phones having lower resolution. Hence this issue occurred.

For more Details : http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html

Hope this helps your problem.

Upvotes: 2

Vladimir
Vladimir

Reputation: 3812

I have one suggestion. Do you use in your layouts android secific resources, such as drawables or something, for example

android:backgroud="@android:drawable/some_android_drawable"

Maybe some vendors don't provide some resources with their firmware, so your app crashs. for example this issue

Upvotes: 0

Markonato
Markonato

Reputation: 61

Except

setContentView(R.layout.some_custom_layout);

try using 

setContentView(yourpackagename.R.layout.some_custom_layout);

that helped me a lot of times.

Upvotes: 0

Code Poet
Code Poet

Reputation: 11437

If you are calling setContentView(R.layout.some_custom_layout) from the Activity's onCreate method, you should be good as long as your app compiles (and I assume it does).

AFAIK accessing your string resources via:

someTxtView.setText(R.string.some_string)

is not the way to go. You should be doing this:

getContext().getResources().getString(R.string.some_string)

Upvotes: 0

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