There is an issue with the Android appcompat v7 library on Samsung devices running Android 4.2. I keep getting crashes with the following stack trace in my Developer Console:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.support.v7.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder
at android.support.v7.widget.PopupMenu.<init>(PopupMenu.java:66)
at com.[my-package-name].CustomActivity$5.onClick(CustomActivity.java:215)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4222)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:17620)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:800)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:194)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5391)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:833)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:600)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
This is line 215 of CustomActivity.java:
PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(CustomActivity.this, mImageViewMenu);
The crashes come from an array of devices, but always Samsung, and always Android 4.2.
A quick web search leads me to believe that many people have the same issue, some of the steps I have tried to solve the issue are:
- Check the Android project properties, make sure the appcompat library is added properly.
- Check the Java Build Path Order and Export project properties, make sure Android Dependencies and Android Private Libraries is checked.
- Confirm the class is included in the library (android.support.v7.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder).
- Confirm R.java is located in gen directory for android.support.v7.appcompat.
- Confirm the AppCompat theme is included in the Manifest.xml activity.
- Clean and rebuild project.
Despite these steps, and despite it working on all other devices and Android versions the crash reports still come through.
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