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Android Build a Simple Android App (retired 2014) Pretty Little Things Adding an Image

i cant run my avd

i tried to change the details that the teacher tolled to change after the note and still can't run the app

4 Answers

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Does your emulator run at all? Do you get any kind of error messages in the Console or Logcat tabs in Eclipse?

wow its you from the movie, lol!! well, my emulator ran perfect until the part of the image.(btw - im sorry for the bad english...) i tried to change the things in the xml that was written below the film, but there is still an error. and yes im getting an error messages in the logcat:

04-22 08:41:26.053: D/AndroidRuntime(1782): Shutting down VM 04-22 08:41:26.053: W/dalvikvm(1782): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0xb1a81ba8) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): Process: com.example.freeapp, PID: 1782 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.freeapp/com.example.freeapp.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity. 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2195) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2245) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:135) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1196) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity. 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivityDelegate.onCreate(ActionBarActivityDelegate.java:111) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivityDelegateICS.onCreate(ActionBarActivityDelegateICS.java:58) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity.onCreate(ActionBarActivity.java:98) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at com.example.freeapp.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:15) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5231) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1087) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2159) 04-22 08:41:26.153: E/AndroidRuntime(1782): ... 11 more 04-22 08:41:30.733: I/Process(1782): Sending signal. PID: 1782 SIG: 9

Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Haha - we love supporting our students! Okay, this is a tricky spot. The tools changed recently and we need to do this workaround. I'm going to refresh the entire course next to overcome these issues.

Until then...it looks like you are still using the wrong theme in your manifest. Can you paste in the code from your AndroidManifest.xml file?

sure, but notice that instead of calling the app "crystalBall" i called it "free app" dont know why did it...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.example.freeapp" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="19" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" >
    <activity
        android:name="com.example.freeapp.MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</application>

</manifest>

Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Okay, so this is the line that is giving you trouble:

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"

You need to undo that change and go back to AppTheme that we saw in the video before making this change. You can use the Manifest wizard to change the theme instead of editing the XML directly.

Sorry for the confusion - this is an annoying issue!

thnx alot, it works perfect now:)