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Android

Posted by orbyt
orbyt
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App crashing due to " requestFeature() must be called before adding content" error

EDIT: switching from extending the deprecated ActionBarActivity to just Activity for all the involved Activities seems to have solved the issue....

see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16939814/android-util-androidruntimeexception-requestfeature-must-be-called-before-add

So I noticed my options menus were a bit messed up and after trying to fix them I started getting a RuntimeException "Caused by: android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: requestFeature() must be called before adding content"

This happens in whatever activity and immediatly crashes the app upon any user interaction. The line being pointed to is 

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);

but im calling it before the setContentView()...

my onCreate looks like:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_sign_up);

Any ideas whats going on here and how to fix?

This is the "Self Destructing Message App" course btw.