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Android

Posted by Gamal Ali
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Gamal Ali
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,907 Points

Help!

When I run my application, it adds it onto my phone. When i click on the application, it responds "Unfortunately, Crystal Ball has stopped".

Nicholas Vandenbroeck
Nicholas Vandenbroeck
4,599 Points

Can you please post the stack trace? There is probably some useful information about why your app is crashing.

2 Answers

Nicholas Vandenbroeck
Nicholas Vandenbroeck
4,599 Points

This topic discusses the same issue and it contains a solution: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/you-need-to-use-a-themeappcompat-theme-or-descendent-crystal-ball-crashes

Gamal Ali
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Gamal Ali
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,907 Points
Gamal Ali
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Gamal Ali
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,907 Points

08-17 16:20:25.076: I/PersonaManager(20020): getPersonaService() name persona_policy 08-17 16:20:25.086: D/AndroidRuntime(20020): Shutting down VM 08-17 16:20:25.086: W/dalvikvm(20020): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x41751da0) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): Process: com.example.crystallball, PID: 20020 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.crystallball/com.example.crystallball.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity. 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2328) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2386) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$900(ActivityThread.java:169) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1277) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5476) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1268) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1084) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity. 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivityDelegate.onCreate(ActionBarActivityDelegate.java:111) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivityDelegateICS.onCreate(ActionBarActivityDelegateICS.java:58) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity.onCreate(ActionBarActivity.java:98) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at com.example.crystallball.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:29) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5451) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1093) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2292) 08-17 16:20:25.096: E/AndroidRuntime(20020): ... 11 more